Which led to this: The one thing that I know about the shape of soap bubbles is that the film tries to minimize its surface area ... you get these bands of color, thanks to the wave nature ...

Shimmery rainbows appear in thicker portions of the soap film, while clusters of dark spots appear in the thinnest regions. The thickness of the soap film determines the color seen. Light rays ...

Effectively the colours are an image of the film thickness at each point on the surface of the soap bubble. A similar effect can be used to determine the forces exerted by cells. Professor Malte ...

No, that image is much cooler than a satellite because it’s a projection of the Earth onto a soap film screen. Yes, we can now display images on the surface of bubbles. Instead of a the soap ...

But this iridescent storm isn’t whirling on an alien planet – it has formed on the surface of a soap bubble. Led by Hamid Kellay, a group of physicists at the University of Bordeaux ...

SHELL FREEZES OVER Watch how differences in temperature across a freezing soap bubble’s surface create currents that send ice crystals swirling. F. Ahmadi, C. Kingett and J. Boreyko. Turning ...