January 5th marks Shokan (Lesser Cold), one of the twenty-four solar terms. It is the day of Kan-no-iri, the official ...

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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 ...

The freeze front creates an unusual liquid flow on the surface of the soap bubbles, new research suggests. By Knvul Sheikh You may have seen the viral videos of photographers freezing soap bubbles ...

Shimmering in the golden sun of a frozen dusk, the prismatic skin of this soap bubble globe turns pellucid as ice crystals feathers upwards from its southern hemisphere. Hope Thurston Carter captured ...

The history of soap bubbles is as old as that of soap. But bubbles are no longer simply soap and water. Invented by Taiwanese bubble solution expert Jackie Lin, the top-secret solution contains a ...

Although soap bubbles can be easily blown with detergents, it is necessary to mix water and detergent at a very precise ratio to create a world-class super huge soap bubble. A physicist who has ...