Now, however, researchers led by James Bird at Boston University in the US have turned this idea literally on its head, using an upside-down bubble-testing rig to show that surface tension, not ...

A viscous bubble film with sufficiently large viscosity, will collapse under the force of surface tension and adopt a wrinkling pattern along its periphery. This material relates to a paper that ...

A team of scientists from Boston University, Princeton University, and MIT challenged a well-accepted hypothesis - Gravity is the driving ... with different bubble-forming parameters, they found out ...

Over time, the pull of gravity gradually drains the liquid ... Adding some kind of surfactant keeps surface tension from collapsing bubbles by strengthening the thin liquid film walls that ...

Think about the water molecules that are sitting inside the incredibly thin wall of a bubble. The surface tension force is pulling those water molecules back into the bulk of the water — and as ...

Pairs of cavities are intentionally placed very close together, causing neighboring bubbles to coalesce together at unusually small sizes. At such small sizes, the force of surface tension is very ...

The majority of bubbles are simply a mix of soap and water, and they will only ever provide fleeting and modestly-sized bubbles because the surface tension ... because of zero gravity, the water ...

A viscous bubble film with sufficiently large viscosity, will collapse under the force of surface tension and adopt a wrinkling pattern along its periphery. This material relates to a paper that ...