The green flash is a rare optical phenomenon above the horizon directly at sunrise or sunset. The color is caused by green ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing r.white@newsweek.com A photographer has captured an optical phenomenon that looks like an "interdimensional portal." Photographer ...

The discovery has led to a reformulation of the mathematical laws that predict the path of a ray of light bouncing off a surface or traveling from one medium into another -- for example ...

Optical illusions get our brain to exercise, and they are also a way to reveal our innermost personality and hidden traits. An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where the brain misinterprets ...

Sun dogs develop similar to other optical phenomena such as rainbows. However, there are a few key differences between rainbows and sun dogs. For example, sunlight passes through water droplets ...

A video of a unique optical phenomenon known as a "glory" spotted from a plane has gone viral on TikTok. Heather Reedy, a 37-year-old registered nurse based in Virginia, spotted the mesmerizing ...

However, this meteorological anomaly is actually an optical illusion caused by light ... where users compared the phenomenon to the Chinese myth where cosmic archer Hou Yi shoots down nine of ...

Diffraction is a classic optical phenomenon accounting for light propagation ... "A few representative examples are given for both scalar and vector diffraction to demonstrate the improvement ...