A soap bubble is a very thin film of soap water that forms a hollow sphere with an iridescent surface. Soap bubbles usually last for only a few moments and then burst either on their own or on contact ...

Blowing soap bubbles has amused children (and adults) for centuries. Recently people have begun blowing soap bubbles in sub-freezing weather. Just this last November, the physics of water crystal ...

Some phenomena that appear to be well understood are much more mysterious than it seems. In spite of the numerous applications that rely on the presence or absence of bubbles, no advanced scientific ...

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Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau, the subject of Monday’s Google Doodle, was a man of art, science, and invention. Plateau’s interests led him in a variety of directions, from the more whimsical ...

When it comes to understanding the shape of bubble clusters, mathematicians have been playing catch-up to our physical intuitions for millennia. Soap bubble clusters in nature often seem to ...

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Glowing bubbles: A soap bubble lasing on the end of a capillary tube. (Courtesy: Matjaž Humar and Zala Korenjak/Jožef Stefan Institute) Soap has long been a household staple, but scientists in ...

A soap bubble is a very thin layer of water sandwiched between two layers of soap molecules (also called surfactant molecules). These soap molecules have a “head” that likes water (scientists say it’s ...