As the tongue-in-cheek saying goes, “It’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it”, and it really does apply to a particular French physicist, who has spent the last 12 years counting how many bubbles ...

Vividly coloured paintings have been created by researchers in Russia by using a laser to heat the surface of a metal until it begins to evaporate. Developed by Vadim Veiko, Yaroslava Andreeva and ...