{"id":207280,"date":"2025-02-26T07:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/bubbles-that-break-rules-a-fluid-discovery-that-defies-logic"},"modified":"2025-02-26T07:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:09:53","slug":"bubbles-that-break-rules-a-fluid-discovery-that-defies-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/bubbles-that-break-rules-a-fluid-discovery-that-defies-logic","title":{"rendered":"Bubbles that break rules: A fluid discovery that defies logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bubbles-that-break-rules-a-fluid-discovery-that-defies-logic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have made an extraordinary discovery that is reshaping our understanding of bubbles and their movement. Picture tiny air bubbles inside a container filled with liquid. When the container is shaken up and down, these bubbles engage in an unexpected, rhythmic \u201cgalloping\u201d motion\u2014bouncing like playful horses and moving horizontally, even though the shaking occurs vertically.<\/p>\n<p>This counterintuitive phenomenon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-56611-5\" target=\"_blank\">revealed in a new study<\/a> published in <i>Nature<\/i>, has significant implications for technology, from cleaning surfaces to improving <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heat+transfer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heat transfer<\/a> in microchips and even advancing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/space+applications\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">space applications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These galloping bubbles are already garnering significant attention: their impact in the field of fluid dynamics has been recognized with an award for their <a href=\"https:\/\/gfm.aps.org\/meetings\/dfd-2024\/673e5f58d88f375e670eb4e2\" target=\"_blank\">video entry<\/a> at the most recent Gallery of Fluid Motion, organized by the American Physical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have made an extraordinary discovery that is reshaping our understanding of bubbles and their movement. Picture tiny air bubbles inside a container filled with liquid. When the container is shaken up and down, these bubbles engage in an unexpected, rhythmic \u201cgalloping\u201d motion\u2014bouncing like playful horses and moving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}