Raindrops aren’t teardrop-shaped—they’re more like hamburger buns, shaped by surface tension and air resistance as they fall ...

I Just Realised How Raindrops Are Actually Shaped, ... “When water drips, say from a [tap], it does kind of take on a ...

So raindrops can never form that old teardrop shape. But they also aren't perfect spheres. Because raindrops are falling. Fast. And this means they're subject to air resistance.

Yes, raindrops are actually spherical, not teardrop-shaped. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , light starts to bend, or refract, when it enters a raindrop because ...

The basic physics of a rainbow is pretty simple, really. Sunlight enters the front of a raindrop. It hits the back side of the drop, reflects, and then heads back out the front side again. The ...

Perhaps another reason why we associate raindrops with teardrop shapes is that we’re more likely to see them when they’re falling off (and still attached to) objects like a glass window or a ...

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I don’t know about you, but I sort of scramble through life assuming some things are true without really questioning them. For instance, I always assumed Wi-Fi stood for something (I was wrong ...