A new floating droplet electricity generator is redefining how rain can be harvested as a clean power source by using water itself as both structural support and an electrode. This nature-integrated ...

Everyone knows that a raindrop is shaped like a teardrop, right? Well, not so fast. While a teardrop is used to depict a raindrop in most instances, an actual raindrop is round when small. Raindrops ...

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 ...

Growing up as kids, when we were asked to draw a rain drop we think of that classic tear drop shape. We never wondered how accurate that actually was. Raindrops are in fact not tear drop shaped. When ...