What happens as a raindrop impacts bare soil has been fairly well-studied, but what happens to raindrops afterward is poorly ...

The pitter-patter of raindrops on your umbrella is caused by raindrops of all different sizes, and now physicists have a new explanation for how those raindrops form. A pair of researchers used a high ...

Rainfall is one of the defining characteristics of our weather, with amounts varying dramatically from one region to another. It shapes both our skies and our landscape, carving valleys while filling ...

A raindrop, by definition, has a diameter greater than 0.02 inch when falling through the atmosphere. Cloud droplets, however, are so tiny that it takes about one million of them to provide enough ...

When asked to picture the shape of raindrops, many of us will imagine water looking like tears that fall from our eyes, or the stretched out drip from a leaky faucet. This popular misconception is ...

Close your eyes and think about the shape of a raindrop. You probably think of the teardrop shape don't you? Well sadly, everything we learned growing up about the shape of a raindrop is false. It ...

WASHINGTON — Most of us have an image of what a raindrop looks like. Some say it's shaped like a teardrop, or it is glamorized to look perfectly round. In reality, scientists document that raindrops ...

How do raindrops form? It's a simple question, but the answer is far from elementary. Tiny water droplets somehow merge to become full-sized raindrops, but the details remain a mystery. Now, ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – This might be one of the more interesting headlines you have ever read, but I promise you that I am headed somewhere with this. There is more rain in the forecast Sunday and ...

How do raindrops form? It’s a simple question, but the answer is far from elementary. Tiny water droplets somehow merge to become full-sized raindrops, but the details remain a mystery. Now, ...