Eyewitnesses filmed a spectacular light effect over the Chinese capital last week. There appeared to be three 'suns' in the ...

An optical illusion occurs when our misinterpretation of the physical reality causes us to see things differently. While some ...

Sun pillars are a beautiful atmospheric phenomenon that can sometimes be seen at sunrise or sunset. Watch this video to learn more about how they form. Xi was unusually frank in spelling out China ...

They speculated that a total of 10 balls formed the pyramid's base, followed by six on the second tier, three for the third, ...

By Whitney Barnes Staff Writer On Thursday afternoon, Dec. 12, at around 4 p.m., the skies over Marshall were adorned with ...

The exploitation of optical phenomena on the nanoscale — nanophotonics — is opening up a diverse field of study that promises to deliver novel technological solutions. Quantum confinement is ...

Solid-state optical cooling is a prominent example that leverages a very unique phenomenon called anti-Stokes (AS) emission. Usually, when materials absorb photons from incoming light, their ...

This includes classical optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, diffraction and interference, and also studying the quantum mechanical properties of individual packets of lights known as ...