Raindrops keep falling -- too quickly -- on my head
Friday, June 19, 2009 - 17:49
in Psychology & Sociology
Bigger water droplets should fall faster than small ones, but that isn't always the case. Understanding why could help researchers improve weather forecasting. The hows and whys of rainfall have been pondered for about as long as human beings have walked upright, but now a team of researchers thinks it has discovered something everyone else missed: Some raindrops fall faster than they should.