Frank Morgan of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., recently illustrated such difficulties when he invited an audience of mathematicians, students, and others to vote on which one of a given pair ...

It can be easy to think that you need math only to do your algebra or geometry homework or if you have a job as an engineer. But, in fact, math pops up everywhere – even in the soap bubbles in your ...

Two 13-year-old girls -- one in pigtails tied with pink and yellow ribbons -- sit at the controls in the mock cockpit of a 737 jet, watching the screen in front of them as they “fly” above Salt Lake ...

Scientists from Emory University have published new research on the secret to making very, very big bubbles. They’ve been able to create bubbles nearly 6 meters across using an optimized mix of ...

The bubble problem is simple enough to state: You start with a list of numbers for the volumes, and then ask how to separately enclose those volumes of air using the least surface area. But to solve ...

Plymouth may have been the site of a new entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. Maybe you saw the strange glow in the air off Jordan Road Saturday morning. Then again, maybe you didn’t. The ...

Frank Morgan of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., recently illustrated such difficulties when he invited an audience of mathematicians, students, and others to vote on which one of a given pair ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. When it comes to understanding the shape of bubble clusters, mathematicians have been playing catch-up to our ...

When you're making huge bubbles, the secret is in the polymer and detergent mix. The extremely micro-thin film that encloses bubbles affects how big they get and how they affect their surroundings.