The Secret Behind Light's Journey Through Space Visible light travels in electromagnetic waves, which we see as the colors of ...

As we transition into fall and move closer to the winter months, you might start noticing something different when you look ...

Scattering in media has unique inherent randomness. Fiber Rayleigh scattering is one of the typical scattering effects. The exploration and understanding of the characteristics of fiber Rayleigh ...

If you look up and notice a bluer-than-average sky during fall months, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. It’s simply ...

Most of us have heard the weather proverb “red skies at night, sailors delight; red skies at morning, sailors take warning.” I certainly enjoy watching a beautiful red sunset, but for those of us in ...

In both the natural world and human society, there commonly exist complex systems such as climate systems, ecological systems, and network systems. Due to the involvement of numerous interacting ...

Per NASA, the color of the so-called "Blood Moon" is caused by the same phenomenon that makes our sky blue and our sunsets red: Rayleigh scattering. Earth's atmosphere scatters away shorter ...

The skies in the Indonesian province of Jambi turned a bright red over the weekend, as if transformed by a particularly saturated Instagram filter. But this wasn't a digital trick. It is a phenomenon ...

Amidst the hunt for exoplanets, astronomers are ultimately searching for signs of habitability and a world similar to our own. However, along the way, they often encounter strange, new worlds that ...