You might think that anything to do with a soap bubble is for kids. But it turns out that observing light scattering through a soap bubble produces unexpected results that may lead to insights into… ...

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 ...

Shine a beam of light through a soap bubble and it could behave in an unexpected way. The light may split into branches like a tree, creating many narrower beams in a phenomenon that could be used ...

Colors swirl on bubbles due to interference between two waves of light. When light hits the outside surface of a bubble, some of it reflects back towards the viewer. But there’s another surface ...

Although it's well-known that a tempest sometimes shows up in a teapot, it turns out that something smaller and far more ephemeral — a soap bubble — can also accommodate a squall. Such was the ...

SOAP-BUBBLES fill the same happy position as do those charming books in which Lewis Carroll describes the adventures of Alice, in that they serve equally to delight the young and to attract the old.

Soap bubbles filled with helium are helping to improve the fuel efficiency of future cars. The 3-millimetre bubbles swirl around cars in a wind tunnel. Engineers at automotive research consultants ...