“Gas marbles” have been created by encapsulating a bubble of gas within a shell of tiny plastic particles. Developed by Yousra Timounay and colleagues at the Université Paris-Est (UPE) in France, the ...

This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. Bubbles have long ...

If you've held onto old marbles from childhood or stumbled across a dusty jar in the attic, you might be wondering if they're worth anything. Not all old marbles have high value, but certain handmade, ...

The Elgin Marbles could soon return to Greece - more than 200 years after they were shipped out of the country to Britain. Greece has made repeated requests for the sculptures to be returned after ...

Handcrafted marbles are beautiful, and they take a lot of work to make. Pieces of glass are colored and layered on top of each other while being crafted into a perfectly spherical shape. Thanks to our ...

Do kids still play marbles? If memory serves, we drew a big circle in the dirt and used a shooter marble to knock smaller marbles out of the circle. The phrase “play for keeps” comes from the practice ...