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 ...
French painters Jean Siméon Chardin and Édouard Manet both created well-known paintings that depicted children blowing bubbles through straw-like tubes, albeit painted more than a century apart. Those ...
Two touching or “kissing” soap bubbles can detach, slide along each other sideways or shift to the side when they are pushed together or pulled apart. You never see a soap bubble form in the shape of ...