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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 ...

Many locals took to social media to share videos of the rare event on the afternoon of 18 December, sparking confusion and ...

Physicists have observed a phenomenon predicted by Lord Rayleigh in 1882 for the first time. Thomas Leisner and colleagues at Ilmenau Technical University in Germany used high-speed microscopic ...

The sky isn't just blue by chance. It takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way. It happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering, named after a ...