These are snapshots of soap-bubble clusters that researchers used to study the dynamic behavior of foam. Saye & Sethian, UC Berkeley / LBNL. May 9, 2013, 5:03 PM EDT. By Science.

Soap bubble clusters in nature often seem to immediately snap into the lowest-energy state, the one that minimizes the total surface area of their walls (including the walls between bubbles).

Anyone who has lathered up soap or seen frothy suds form on top of freshly poured soda has witnessed the delicate science of bubbles in action. But while bubbles and foamy materials are common in ...

Predicting the geometric shapes of bubble clusters can lead to surprisingly difficult problems. In 1995, mathematicians finally proved that the so-called standard double bubble, familiar to any ...

Predicting the geometric shapes of soap bubble clusters can lead to surprisingly difficult mathematical problems. Which one of these two configurations of five planar bubbles of equal area has the ...

Researchers at Brown University — who were working in tandem with peers at the University of Toulouse in France — have finally discovered why Champagne bubbles are unique.

To form tissues, like cells must clump together. The striking resemblance between one cell aggregate in flies and a cluster of soap bubbles points to a crucial role for surface mechanics in ...

The one thing that I know about the shape of soap bubbles is that the film tries to minimize its surface area. That's why even if you use a square frame (which they had in another part of the ...

The organoid cluster can be thought of like soap bubbles, ... In order to fuse into a single gigantic bubble from the cluster of compressed bubbles, the inner walls need to be broken down.

In 1672, Robert Hooke observed that bubbles blown through a glass tube are clear white, but as the soap film thins, "all the colors of the rainbow" appear on the surface.