This video offers an artistic look at a soap bubble bursting. The process is captured with high-speed video combined with schlieren photography, a technique that makes visible subtle density variations Keep reading
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Lasing Bubbles
The thin shells of bubbles interact with light in fascinating ways; that is, of course, the source of their brilliant colors. In this recent study, researchers discovered that bubbles can Keep reading
Inside a Soap Bubble
Every child learns to blow soap bubbles, but it’s rare that we have a chance to look inside them and see the flow there. In this poster, researchers seed a Keep reading
Bubble Growth, Inspired By Art
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French painters like Chardin and Manet had a certain fascination with bubble-blowing physics. Both left behind artwork depicting children blowing soap bubbles through straws. Now researchers are Keep reading
Exploding a Bubble
In this high-speed video, artist Linden Gledhill ignites a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen contained within a soap bubble. As neat as the video is, I decided to take a Keep reading
Optimal Bubble Clusters
With a bubble wand, it’s quite easy to create clusters of two or more soap bubbles. These clusters seem to instantly find the lowest energy state, forming a shape that Keep reading
Chilly Soap Films
Evaporation is a well-known effect in soap films and bubbles. It’s responsible for the ever-changing thickness reflected in the film’s many colors. But evaporation does more than change the bubble’s Keep reading
Bending in Bubbles
Inside a cavity with a square cross-section, bubbles form an array. The shapes of their edges are determined by surface tension and capillarity (lower half of center image). Adding an Keep reading
Within the Bubble’s Pop
To our eyes, a soap bubble appears to pop instantly, but when observed in high-speed video, the process is far more complex. In this video, the Slow Mo Guys pop Keep reading
The Best of FYFD 2020
2020 was certainly a strange year, and I confess that I mostly want to congratulate all of us for making it through and then look forward to a better, happier, Keep reading