Plink. Plink. Plink. It's the sound of water droplets falling one after another, maybe from a leaky faucet or through a cracked ceiling. It's the kind of sound that can keep you up all night ...

A new study shows that if rain-like droplets fall naturally through a narrow tube in a discontinuous flow—gaps of air between each drop, also known as plug flow—the amount of electricity ...

If it was just created by a water droplet smacking the surface of the water in the bucket, he reasoned, it would be much harsher. Something else, he thought, was going on.

1 Making an impact (a) An undeformed drop with diameter D0 hits the surface and spreads out to its maximum diameter, Dmax, within the first 2 ms. The drop subsequently retracts and can either detach ...

Thus, as a tiny water droplet grows, its mass becomes more important than its shape and the droplet falls faster. Even a large droplet having a radius of 100 microns has a fall velocity of only ...

Any water droplet can dance. All it needs is the right dance floor. Take, for instance, the water drops bouncing around in Yanlin Song’s lab. They twist, twirl and even pirouette after falling ...

Wikipedia lists the coefficient of drag for a smooth sphere as 0.1. A rain drop should be less than this - but how much less? Well, a rain drop would take some of the water to form some sort of tail.

A droplet falling on the plate, will freeze starting at the bottom. It will not stay round, but turn into a conical shape. Existing theories could not explain this shape transformation.