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 ...

Background As you may know, bubbles rely on surface tension to hold together ... such as air pressure and gravity, to have an effect. In addition, the larger bubbles have their own weight to ...

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 ...

The liquid trapped in the interface slowly drains away due to gravity ... water is a liquid with quite a high surface tension. As the film around the air bubble that contains them thins, it ...

The secret to making bubbles is surface tension. Adding soap (such as the kind you use to wash dishes in the sink) to water changes the surface tension of that water, and this creates a great ...

Jason Latimer from Impossible Science defies gravity with the surface tension of water. Jason Latimer from Impossible Science, together with Constance Zimmer and her daughter, shows how to defy ...

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 ...