Raindrops aren’t teardrop-shaped—they’re more like hamburger buns, shaped by surface tension and air resistance as they fall ...

All objects in the absence of air resistance (friction) fall at the same rate regardless of their mass. Due to gravity the speed of an object dropped from rest from a height will increase at the ...

On Earth, of course, air resistance and other factors might change how an object falls. So, scientists conducted an experiment testing the weak equivalence principle aboard a satellite in space.

In this episode of Jiwi's Machines, Jiwi and Luke explore the principles of mass and surface area by experimenting with ...

The team's results, which are the culmination of 20 years of research, revealed that acceleration in pairs of objects in free fall differed by no more than 1 part in 10^15, or 0.000000000000001 ...

Ants don't get hurt when they fall due to gravitational force and air resistance balancing out their descent. ... The strength of the gravitational force depends on the mass of the falling object.

Normally, when an object falls to the ground it picks up speed until the forces of gravity and air resistance balance out. At this point, the object stops accelerating, reaching its terminal velocity.