MOLINE, Ill. — Since childhood, many of us have grown up wth the impression that raindrops have a teardrop appearance to them. Even our weather computer gives off this impression with a ...

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 ...

If raindrops on roses are among your favorite things, University of Washington researchers have encountered some monster drops that could change your mind. If raindrops on roses are among your ...

Clay Thompson is on vacation. In his absence, we're running some favorite columns from the past. This column was first published on Dec. 28, 2010. It's time once again to clean out the old Valley 101 ...

If you had a collision with something 50 times your weight, it would probably (pun intended) have a major impact. But mosquitos do this all the time. Raindrops can weigh 50 times more than a mosquito, ...

When you hear about geologists studying records of Earth’s distant past, you probably picture something substantial—layers of rock or mineralized fossils. Raindrops are unlikely to come to mind. But ...