Stanford professor Manu Prakash explains how bubbles can be used as bits to make a computer. By directing the bubbles through etched pathways, they act like electrons traveling through circuits. In ...

DENVER — Forget fancy electronics. Plain old bubbles are enough to direct the flow of liquid through networks of microscopic tubes, called microfluidics. Researchers recently demonstrated that bubbles ...

MIT researchers have developed a computer chip that runs on microbubbles like these. Photo courtesy / Manu Prakash MIT researchers have developed a computer chip that runs on microbubbles like these.

Bubbles add fizz to champagne and spring to foam mattresses, but the details about how they form have been murky. A new computer simulation now challenges a theory about bubble formation that has been ...

A computer that carries out calculations using tiny bubbles instead of electricity has been developed by US researchers. The “microfluidic” computer performs calculation by squeezing bubbles through ...

In work that could dramatically boost the capabilities of "lab on a chip" devices, MIT researchers have created a way to use tiny bubbles to mimic the capabilities of a computer. In work that could ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--In work that could dramatically boost the capabilities of "lab on a chip" devices, MIT researchers have created a way to use tiny bubbles to mimic the capabilities of a computer. The ...

Flora Lichtman is here with a Video Pick of the Week. And it's something about an everyday object? FLORA LICHTMAN, BYLINE: An everyday item. The Video Pick of the Week this week is about - oh, that ...