Reflection and Transmission What happens when light hits some type of transparent surface—like ... happens when light hits the surface of a soap bubble. Some of the light goes into the thin ...

You can see these most clearly to the lower right in the photo, just behind The Pip, zoomed in here: While the soap and water mix that makes the bubble is basically transparent, when you make it ...

When the lights come up at the Gazillion Bubbles Show, it quickly becomes clear what's going on. Powerful fans blow tiny soap bubbles into the audience by the thousands. Little kids giggle ...

transparent plastic box with water at the bottom to keep the environment moist and so prolong bubble life. Soap solution is first supplied to the box through the inner of two concentric tubes.

Instead of soap and water, the bubbles are made with water, microparticles of plastic and a clear, viscous liquid called glycerol. That trio of ingredients staves off factors that normally hasten ...

The typical bathtub or dish soap bubble lasts just moments ... It wasn't immediately clear if this French super bubble set any kind of world mark.

Just two years ago, French physicists worked out a theoretical model for the exact mechanism for how soap bubbles form when jets of air hit a soapy film. They tested their model by hanging ...

Soap bubbles filled with helium are helping to improve the fuel efficiency of future cars. The 3-millimetre bubbles swirl around cars in a wind tunnel. Engineers at automotive research consultants ...

Soap bubbles that deliver pollen to flowers could offer an alternative way of fertilising plants as bee populations decline, while being more delicate than other methods. Eijiro Miyako at the ...