Rainbows Rainbows are one of nature's most enchanting spectacles, forming beautiful arcs of color in the sky. They occur when ...

A optical illusion appeared off the First Coast this week, making it seem as though a ship was hovering above and out of the ...

A seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey believes she's solved the mystery of why lights appear and cars rattle in a ...

A group of foreign tourists who were taking a catamaran tour in Tierra del Fuego captured some of the clearest photos of a UFO ever taken. The mysterious ...

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A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Rice and Texas A&M has received a $1.2 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation to advance super-resolution imaging and single-molecule tracking by ...

An article published in the journal Optica describes the development of a new experimental device that explores the boundary ...

A skier in Austria captured a stunning sun pillar, a rare optical phenomenon where ice crystals reflect sunlight, creating a vertical column of light. This event, commonly seen during sunrise or ...

Researchers have developed a new optical sensor that provides a simple way to achieve real-time detection of extremely low levels of arsenic in water.