Have you ever sipped a glass of Champagne and thought to yourself, “man, I’d really enjoy this more if I knew exactly how many bubbles were in this bottle.” No? Well, I bet after reading that sentence ...

The science behind bubbles in champagne is an active field of research. Here, a red spotlight highlights bubbles growing at the bottom of a goblet, where they stick thanks to surface tension. Gérard ...

A glass of champagne may contain approximately one million bubbles - much lower than previously estimated, researchers have found. The importance of fizz, more technically known as effervescence, in ...

Brown University physicist Roberto Zenit has a knack for tying his fundamental fluid dynamics research to everyday phenomena, like enjoying a glass of champagne with friends. He noticed one day that ...

Nothing says it's Valentine's Day like the pop of a freshly opened bottle of champagne — well, nothing says it quite so eloquently. The bubbly will do more than tickle your tongue and perhaps your ...

The bubble estimating scientist is Gérard Liger-Belair, who works at the French Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne. The university is located in Reims, a city, appropriately enough in a city in the ...

A sparkling wine isn't champagne unless it comes from its namesake region of France. The Champagne province in the northeast of France boasts ideal soil conditions which contribute to the grape ...