Rainbows Rainbows are one of nature's most enchanting spectacles, forming beautiful arcs of color in the sky. They occur when sunlight is refracted, reflected, and dispersed by water droplets in the ...

Shine the laser at a small angle up, from the bottom layer to the middle layer. The beam should bend back down. The physics is that of an upside-down mirage. In the tank, from top to bottom, the index ...

We've been talking about this for 2,000 years. Aristotle mentions it. And in our own time, scientists are designing experiments to ...

UTO, Kumamoto Prefecture--A high school science club here enlisted the help of local fishermen to reproduce a rare type of atmospheric ... across Japan. A mirage is caused by refraction of light ...

He told Newsweek that "the video displays an amazing example of the Fata Morgana, or a type of superior mirage—a mirage ... marveled at the power of atmospheric refraction.