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Bubbles

Bridget Kendall explores the mysterious world of bubbles with physicist Helen Czerski, biomedical engineer Constantin Coussios and artist Bradley Hart.

Fragile gas filled spheres, sparkling champagne globules that fill your nose with fizz, pipe dreams that pop when the illusion grows too big: Bridget Kendall explores the mysterious world of bubbles with physicist Helen Czerski, biomedical engineer Constantin Coussios and artist Bradley Hart who makes giant paintings using bubble wrap.

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28 minutes

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Sat 20 Sep 2014 11:00

Helen Czerski

Helen Czerski

Helen Czerski is a physicist and oceanographer at University College London. She explains why ocean bubbles are essential for the planet鈥檚 wellbeing and describes the enormous variety of bubble sizes and properties found in our seas.

Constantin Coussios

Constantin Coussios

Constantin Coussios is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at聽 Oxford University. He puts micro-bubbles inside the human body, tracking the tiny nano sized spheres as they make their way聽 through the blood stream. He wants to control the bubbles so they release the cancer drugs encased in them at exactly the right place and right time.

Bradley Hart

Bradley Hart

Visual artist Bradley Hart exploits the curious properties of bubbles which make them such powerful metaphors for our digital, pixelated, disjointed times. He injects paint into bubble wrap, to create large-scale works of art.

You can see some of Bradley's bubble wrap art work in the gallery on the right.

Photo c/o Bradley Hart

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  • Sat 20 Sep 2014 11:00