The Great Smoky Mountains are wonders of nature. Thanks to my kids, I get to experience them at times. My daughter used to have volleyball tournaments in Sevierville, Tennessee, and this weekend, the ...

Twilight is the transition period between day and night, showcasing beautiful colors. Three types of twilight exist: civil, nautical, and astronomical, defined by the Sun's angle below the horizon.

Water Selectively Absorbs Light Wavelengths The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light ...

Visible light travels in electromagnetic waves, which we see as the colors of the rainbow. Different colors have different wavelengths of light. Violet and blue have the shortest wavelengths, whereas ...

Humanity has devised various countermeasures to stop the progression of global warming. One such method, called ' Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI),' involves scattering fine particles into the ...

Recently, the research team led by Professor CUI Wenyu from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with the research groups from Institute of ...

Prof. Andreas Macke, Director of TROPOS, was honoured at ELS2025 with the "Elsevier van de Hulst Prize for Light Scattering" 2025 for his contributions to the understanding of scattering properties of ...

The skies over St. Petersburg, Florida, turned purple as Hurricane Milton approached the Florida coast last week, a phenomenon that has been seen in other hurricanes such as Delta, Dorian, and even ...

The weather forecast for the giant, super-hot Jupiter-size planet WASP-79b is steamy humidity, scattered clouds, iron rain, and yellow skies. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope teamed up with the Magellan ...

When meteoroids flash through Earth’s atmosphere, they bore tunnels through the air, leaving behind narrow meteor tracks that are heated by the collision of the fast-moving incoming object with atoms ...