WATCH: Raindrops Catapult Bacteria Into The Air, And It's Beautiful They don't have wings, but bacteria sure can fly. Researchers at MIT say that tiny bubbles trapped by raindrops play a part in launching bacteria on long-distance flights.

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Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head: A Mosquito's Lament If you're a mosquito darting about on a rainy day, those drops zinging down at you can be, first of all, as big as you are, and, more dangerously, they're denser.

Superfast Raindrops Seem To Break The Laws Of Physics You might expect the physics of rain to be something that is well understood by now, but sometimes raindrops fall faster than our current formulas say should be possible. Previous measurements indicating this fact have been confirmed and new data dem Read more ... onstrates just how drastically theoretical speed l…

Scientists Use High-Speed Cameras to Spot Raindrops Releasing Aerosols, Which May Cause Rain’s Earth Scientists at MIT have utilized super slow motion video captured by high-speed cameras to demonstrate how raindrops release small amounts of aerosol as they hit porous surfaces. The aerosols releas...

High-Speed Video Reveals The Source Of That Incredible After-Rain Smell That smell has a name. It's called petrichor. For decades, scientists have speculated on where this smell comes from, but the mechanism behind the phenomenon has remained elusive. Now, researchers at MIT studying high-speed video of raindrops think t Read more ... hey've found the answer: The smell is released in tiny aerosol clouds that raindrops emit upon impact.