At first glance, the soap foam appears to be quite simple: it is light, airy, and most often white. However, there is a great deal going on behind the scenes, with many tiny bubbles and a great amount ...

With the holiday season in full swing, gifts of all shapes and sizes are being shipped around the world. But all that packaging generates lots of waste, including cardboard boxes and plastic-based ...

A bartender pours a draft beer in a bar in Brest, western France - Copyright AFP/File FRED TANNEAU A bartender pours a draft beer in a bar in Brest, western France ...

Liquid foams fascinate toddlers singing in a bubble bath. Physicists, too, have an interest in their acoustical properties. Borrowing from both porous material and foam science, Juliette Pierre from ...

Plastic is a huge concern for the environment. When consumer products and industrial waste break down, the environment becomes inundated with small pieces of plastic known as microplastics. For this ...

Foams have long baffled scientists because liquid drains from them far sooner than theory predicts. New research shows the reason: the bubbles don’t stay put—they rearrange, opening pathways for ...

Foam glass represents an advanced material derived from molten glass that has been expanded to form a highly porous structure. This material offers a unique combination of excellent thermal insulation ...