Now, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have created a series of equations that model how foamy clusters evolve, based on their examination of shape-shifting soap bubbles.The ...

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).

So, in brief, the life cycle of a bubble is… They’re draining. Someone gets too thin and pops. That disturbs the equilibrium, so they all have to move to a new position, and then the cycle repeats ...

The math behind a single bubble popping is relatively straightforward. Scale that up to a cluster of foamy soap bubbles, on the other hand, and you’ve suddenly got something that’s ...

Bursting the bubbles: snapshots from a multiscale model of membrane rearrangement, drainage and rupture in a cluster of soap bubbles, shown using thin-film interference. (Courtesy: James Sethian and ...

When one member of the unit inevitably pops, the bubbles rearrange themselves to balance out the cluster. They compensate for the loss by creating new -- and newly stable -- configurations.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

These clusters of holes are common in nature, also including honeycombs and clusters of soap bubbles. One sufferer reports: "[I] can’t really face small, ...