Here's one for the Guinness Book of Records — researchers from the University of Lille created the world's longest-lasting bubble, which kept its shape for 465 days.
This is a whopping 20,00 times longer than regular soap bubbles, which typically last for a only a matter of minutes — if even that — before they pop.
The team's trick lies in creating a special kind of bubble called a 'gas marble', which has a layered shell structure with plastic beads at the surface that make it strong.
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Here's one for the Guinness Book of Records — researchers from the University of Lille created the world's longest-lasting bubble (pictured) which kept its shape for 465 days
The study was conducted by physicist Aymeric Roux and his colleagues at the University of Lille, in France.
'Soap bubbles are by essence fragile and ephemeral,' the team wrote in their paper.
'Depending on their composition and environment, bubble bursting can be triggered by gravity-induced drainage and/or the evaporation of the liquid and/or the presence of nuclei.
'They can also shrink due to the diffusion of the inner gas in the outside atmosphere induced by Laplace overpressure,' they added.
'We designed bubbles made of a composite liquid film able to neutralise all these effects and keep their integrity for more than one year in a standard atmosphere.'
Gas marbles are an unusual type of bubble made from a liquid solution that contains tiny plastic beads.
These pack together on the bubble's shell, making it strong enough such that it can even be held in your hand or rolled along a surface without breaking.
While previous research had explored the mechanical properties of gas marbles, the study by Mr Roux and colleagues is the first to explore their potential lifetimes.
In their experiments to find the longest-lasting bubble, the team compared three different types — regular soap bubbles, water-based gas marbles and
