A viscous bubble film with sufficiently large viscosity will collapse under the force of surface tension. Credit: Oliver McRae What causes a bubble to burst? For bubbles on the surface of viscous ...

Whenever you see open water (either running or still), you can often feel a little closer to your primordial roots — after all, life (and that includes you) came from the oceans. And so, whenever you ...

Introduction Have you ever tried to blow a bubble, and no matter how hard you try—that bubble just won’t form? Why does this happen? Why do bubbles form at all? And why is it harder to blow bubbles ...

New numerical solutions to the so-called selection problem for one and two steadily translating bubbles in an unbounded Hele-Shaw cell are presented. Our approach relies on conformai mapping which, ...

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 ...

Foaming is nature’s way of making beer even more delicious. Yet not all foams are understood because they don’t seem to obey the model that explains most of the rest. Understanding these atypical ...