A viscous bubble film with sufficiently large viscosity will collapse under the force of surface tension. Credit: Oliver McRae What causes a bubble to burst? For bubbles on the surface of viscous ...

Whenever you see open water (either running or still), you can often feel a little closer to your primordial roots — after all, life (and that includes you) came from the oceans. And so, whenever you ...

We’ve all delighted in the simple joy of blowing bubbles, but most of us never stop to think about the underlying physics. Now French physicists have devised a mathematical model that precisely ...