Weather can be as unpredictable as it is fascinating. From the gentle patter of rain to the ferocity of thunderstorms, the ...

A glory is a mesmerizing display of concentric ... The green flash is a rare and fleeting optical phenomenon that occurs just as the sun sets or rises. For a brief moment, the upper edge of ...

Local author/columnist Michelle Page is back to weigh in on rainbows and their tangible power to communicate and connect with ...

Contrails across the sky create a strange shadow on the ground that puzzled an airplane passenger seeing them from the ...

If you get up with the roosters, you may have recently seen a rare sight in the sky for the Central Virginia area: a sun pillar.

That's called a sun pillar. According to the National Weather Service, the optical phenomenon appears as a vertical shaft of light, visible most often at sunrise or sundown. SEE ALSO: Sunshine and ...

as well as Imperial College London and University College London suggest leveraging an optical phenomenon called chromatic aberration—that usually degrades image quality—to produce suitable ...

A mysterious phenomenon at the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark matter. Dark matter, the ...

Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is a microscopy technique widely used to investigate cells and tissues. Even though first biomedical applications based on QPI have been developed, both acquisition ...