Optical illusions are fascinating visual phenomena that make our brains perceive something different from reality. They can ...

Nature is capable of the most mysterious, surreal, stunning, and powerful things. The only thing we can do as humans is to ...

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

Some optical phenomena depend on the quantum nature of light and the interaction of light with matter. Geometric optics and physical optics are models that describe phenomena while ignoring properties ...

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The atmospheric optical phenomenon is caused by light refracting from ice crystals, according to AccuWeather. Light pillars appear as beams of light to observers and tend to take on the color of ...

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 ...