There’s a science behind the art of blowing soap bubbles. It’s not the thickness of the soapy film but rather the speed of the blowing gust of air that determines whether bubbles will emerge, ...

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 ...

Everybody loves bubbles, regardless of age—the bigger the better. But to blow really big, world-record-scale bubbles requires a very precise bubble mixture. Physicists have determined that a key ...

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 ...

Physicists have worked out the perfect soap mixture recipe for blowing giant bubbles — and the secret ingredient is a food additive called 'guar powder'. Looking to find out how soapy films fifty ...