SciShow
Bioprecipitation: How Bacteria Makes Snow
Raindrops and snowflakes generally start to form around something else in the air, like a speck of dust, but sometimes that something else is bacteria.
Be Smart
What Do Raindrops Really Look Like?
What do raindrops look like? Exactly how we drew them as kids, right? Wrong! Teardrop-shaped rain is physically impossible. This week I went inside a vertical wind tunnel to bring you the true shape of rain.
MinuteEarth
Rain's Dirty Little Secret
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some key words/phrases to get your googling started: - Condensation - the process of water molecules glomming together into visible droplets - Condensation nuclei - tiny...
MinutePhysics
Why Raindrops Are Mathematically Impossible
Why Raindrops Are Mathematically Impossible
Be Smart
What Are Rainbows?
Dorothy went over one. LeVar Burton read to us under one. In a song, Kermit the Frog connected us to one. Even Mork's suspenders were made of them. Our culture, and our skies, are full of rainbows, but do you know how they form? Do we...
Curated Video
What is a Rainbow? - Light Refraction
What is refraction and how does it produces the colours and shape of a rainbow? Earth Science - Weather - Learning Points. Rainbows are beautiful tricks of the light. Rainbows are caused when light is reflected and refracted by water....
Curated Video
Types of Weather: Rain
Rain is essential to our planet. Without it, all life on Earth would struggle to survive. How do rain clouds form and what determines whether it rains or not? Earth Science - Weather - Learning Points. Rainfall comes from the clouds...
Curated Video
Learn About The Three Ingredients That Make a Rainbow! | Educational Songs For Kids
Let's learn about the three ingredients that make a rainbow!
Next Animation Studio
How small insects survive in the rain
A team of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered how small insects cope with rain. The study found that when a mosquito is hit by a raindrop, its body puts up little resistance. The mosquito simply combines...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Rainbows
A blue sky and fluffy bright clouds are things that are seen around the world. The atmosphere presents a multitude of sights and phenomena using light, air, water droplets, ice crystals, and dust. Many of the phenomena give clues to...
Curated Video
How Do Rainbows Form?
In this video, you will learn how rainbows are formed through the behavior of light waves. Sunlight, composed of different wavelengths, enters raindrops, causing the light to split into a multitude of colors. As the light refracts and...
NASA
NASA | Anatomy of a Raindrop
This short video explains how a raindrop falls through the atmosphere and why a more accurate look at raindrops can improve estimates of global precipitation.
Curated Video
I WONDER - How Do Rainbows Form?
This video is answering the question of how do rainbows form.
Getty Images
raining and TV antenna, Communication satellite dish.
TV antenna, Communication satellite dish. The problem is no signal when it rains is concept. raining season
Getty Images
WATER DROP LEECHES FROM VEGETATION
Macro shot of a water drop squeezing slowly out from moss and lichen covered rock next to an English stream
Getty Images
Motion video of waterdrop on green moss
Motion video of macro waterdrop moving from wind on green moss / lichen over the tree in the forest on bokeh background
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Motion video of waterdrop on green moss
Motion video of macro waterdrop moving from wind on green moss / lichen over the tree in the forest on bokeh background