When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Raindrops are shaped like teardrops, right? The idea of the teardrop-shaped raindrop has ...

Everyone knows that a raindrop is shaped like a teardrop, right? Well, not so fast. While a teardrop is used to depict a raindrop in most instances, an actual raindrop is round when small. Raindrops ...

A Pittsburgh web/data visualization developer has created an online interactive tool that allows anyone to input their address and within seconds see the route a single raindrop would follow from ...

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. We might never consider the size of the raindrops as we hurry for cover, but their variety has puzzled ...

Listener Eleanor wants to know: is it possible for a raindrop to fall in the UK, then travel all the way to New Zealand and fall again as rain there? Show more CrowdScience listener Eleanor was lying ...

Marks left by falling rain in South Africa 2.7 billion years ago appear to solve a long-standing scientific mystery: Why wasn't the Earth covered in ice at that time? Because the sun's warmth wasn't ...