Flying bubble makers could save world from starvation

A chemically functionalised soap bubble on a campanula flower on June 17. A Japanese scientist successfully demonstrated that soap bubbles can be used to pollinate fruit-bearing plants. — Handout/Eijiro Miyako/AFP

WASHINGTON: Flying robots equipped with bubble guns could one day help save our planet.

That's according to a study published in iScience on June 17 by a Japanese scientist who successfully demonstrated that soap bubbles can be used to pollinate fruit-bearing plants – seen as vital to keeping the world fed in the coming decades in the face of vanishing bee populations.