Unlike soap bubbles in air, air bubbles underwater are maintained by the pressure of the surrounding water rather than tension. The beautiful bubble rings blown by dolphins are actually toroidal vortices that they create by sending a localised gush of water into an otherwise still region, which they then inject with air.

Walking through a field on a hot summer day, you notice blobs of bubbles on a plant stem. From the side of a stream you see shimmering bubbles surface and disappear. Where do these bubbles come from? They come from insects and other animals that blow bubbles for protection, breathing, moving, or even for play.

Average humidity chart for American areas. Small print.

Average temps in Different American Areas. Small print.

Bottoms up and bubbles down. how bubbles behave in beer.

"Bubbles that are blown from appropriate solutions of plastic look much like soap bubbles. With plastic, however, surface tension plays no role in determining either the shape of the plastic bubbles or their behavior..." A very nice read about a very interesting project.

Bottled Bubbles.(how carbonated beverages are made and why they produce bubbles)

Beware of the Bends and many other ways bubbles cause trouble in our lives.

Thin Film Interference Factors, or where those excellent colors come from. Your US tax dollars at work.

In a pioneering study that stands to add important new factors into computer models that predict climate change oceanographers are using newly developed technology to investigate bubbles formed in breaking ocean waves.

Tiny bubbles that may trigger nuclear fusion -- the process powering the sun -- under easy "tabletop" conditions have ignited a controversy among scientists.

In this paper we find the unique surface of smallest area enclosing two equal volumes. The surface is called a double bubble, and is made of two pieces of round spheres separated by a disk, meeting along a single circle at an angle of 120◦ .

Pop goes fusion? (Upfront: researcher claims that popping bubbles can produce nuclear fusion) (Brief Article)

The bubble is the Clark Kent of the natural world: mild-mannered and a bit of a wimp--until it strips for action. A preview of the awesome power of the seemingly innocent orb came in 1917 when English physicist Lord Rayleigh revealed how bubbles in ocean water cause the mysterious erosion of the metal in ship propellers.

The prospect of carrying out chemical reactions at temperatures hotter than the sun has driven scientists to explore the process known as sonoluminescence

How can you tell if your chemical reactions are on track? It's all in the size of the bubble.

The fascinating physics of fizz. Andrea Prosperetti makes his living exploring the extraordinary properties of one of the most ordinary phenomena in the natural world. A mechanical engineer at Johns Kopkins University, Prosperetti has spent the past 15 years trying to fill an important scientific void with an understanding of the surprisingly complex lives of bubbles.

On Space Station. NASA. He inserted the wand into a zero-g beaker and pulled it out again. "To my amazement," he says, "when the 2-inch loop was withdrawn, a thin film of water clung tenaciously to the loop. I've never before witnessed such a large-scale film of water."

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n this article, we collect a series of laboratory experiments which mainly concern surface phenomena and colloidal systems. Due to their number, these experiments will be briefly described. As you know, our articles do not intend to supply an exhaustive explanation of the topibut rather to give rise to a curiosity toward them and to give young people exposure to interesting categories of natural phenomena

Sidney Perkowitz: Physicist and "Foam-ologist".(author of ’Universal Foam: From Cappuccino to the Cosmos’ discusses his findings about foam)(Brief Article)

Foamy "Fizzicks".(experiments for foam and bubbles) by SIDNEY PERKOWITZ

Forever Young : A look at the beauty and chemistry of soap bubbles.

Physicists say that the study of foam may help unlock the secrets of the universe, and make better cappuccino.

Trailing after double bubbles.(research on geometry of bubble configurations)(Brief Article)

Helium Filled Bubbles are used to study bird flight. Tiny Bubbles (the size of a head of a pin) when filled with helium are neutrally buoyant.

A science article about how helium bubbles are used to test and measure air flow around objects.

Natrosol® hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) is a nonionic water-soluble polymer derived from cellulose. Natrosol dissolves readily in cold or hot water. It is used to produce solutions having a wide range of viscosity. Such solutions are pseudoplastic—that is, they vary in viscosity depending on the amount of shear stress applied.

Laughing gas makes chocolate bubbles melt in mouth.

The last word.(answers to questions about physical properties of marshmallows and bubbles

No cockroach sudsing with out EPA Permit!

PH testing is important, and so is selecting the right kind of strips when dealing with surfactants. This article might help you understand more about it all.

Frothy physics: scrutinizing the laws of suds.

ANIMAL ANGLES.(how the snapping shrimp makes sounds by producing bubbles)

Soap Films Reveal Whirling Worlds of Turbulence. (two-dimensional turbulence studied in soap film)

National teacher training institute lesson plans: This lesson will take students through the scientific methods of testing the effectiveness of soap use against "germs" - to the history and chemistry of the substance that has aided humans in controlling and ridding themselves of "germs" (soap)- to the ever fascinating and fun byproduct of soap, bubbles.

Soap-film shots tell more about swirls.(research on turbulence)(Brief Article)

Lesson plan. Students will be introduced to the concept of surface tension, its dependence on material composition, and how it can produce uniquely shaped surfaces.

Dynamics of surfactant-influenced gas/liquid interfaces.

Bubbles impart levity, animation, and highlights of flavor and feel to beers, some wines, and many other beverages . Without them, beer is flat, champagne is unrecognizable. Is it any wonder that brewers and champagne makers tend to their bubbles with great care?

The rise of antibubbles: odd, soggy bubbles finally get some respect.

The idea of the Bubble Show was born in autumn 2000 in Riga, in Alberta street where all houses are known to have been built by father of famous Eisenstein. There lived Dmitry Zagga and Artur Punte, and one lazy evening they were experimenting with household chemical goods and an old slide projector. It resulted into the product, which is now known by club or exhibition visitors, etc, as he Bubble Show.

Three long-standing puzzles involving spherical bodies--the configuration of double bubbles, stable orbits of three stars, and random packing of spheres in a box--have all been solved