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.

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.

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 dro
plets
- Condensation...

Why Raindrops Are Mathematically Impossible

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...

Rainbows Explained in Ten Seconds

The Sun emits light across various colors, but its peak wavelength is in the green region. However, the human eye perceives a slight excess of green light as white. So, the Sun appears white to us.

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....

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...

Jump into 'How Does Refraction Cause Rainbows?' to find out how light bending through raindrops creates colorful arcs in the sky! A quick, vibrant journey into the science of rainbows, just right for young explorers.

Let's learn about the three ingredients that make a rainbow!

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...

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...

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...

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.

This video explores five fun facts about rainbows.

This video is answering the question of how do rainbows form.