Maybe It's Raining Less Than We Thought: Physicists Make A Splash With Raindrops Discovery

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 19:28 in Astronomy & Space

It's conventional wisdom in atmospheric science circles: Large raindrops fall faster than smaller drops because they're bigger and heavier. And no raindrop can fall faster than its "terminal speed." Now a team of physicists has determined that it ain't necessarily so.

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