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I was washing the dishes when I noticed that the bubbles in a splodge of soapy water on the counter had a very regular structure. The bubbles, all small and identical in size, had arranged themselves ...

Look closely at an ice cube, and you might spot minuscule bubbles shaped like teardrops, flattened eggs or even winding worms. Bubble patterns in Russia’s Lake Baikal (shown here) are even more vivid.

Harvard University researchers have developed “armored” bubbles capable of resisting their natural tendency to become spheres, thus allowing them to be formed into a variety of unusual shapes. The ...