A optical illusion appeared off the First Coast this week, making it seem as though a ship was hovering above and out of the water. The phenomenon, known as a superior mirage, occurs when layers of ...

A research team has developed a novel multidimensional sampling theory to overcome the limitations of flat optics. The study not only identifies the constraints of conventional sampling theories in ...

On social media, various profiles are sharing a video from Austria. There, on one of the ski slopes, an extraordinary optical ...

On social media, various profiles are sharing a video from Austria. It is there, on one of the ski slopes, that an ...

Viewers were mesmerized by the striking scene in the viral clip, with one saying, "That's a view into an alternate reality." ...

seeing flashing lights or floaters in one or both eyes Uhthoff’s phenomenon, or Uhthoff’s sign, when vision worsens with an increase in body temperature When ON affects one eye only ...

Mirage is a tool that automatically generates fast GPU kernels for PyTorch programs through superoptimization techniques. For example, to get fast GPU kernels for attention, users only need to write a ...

According to scientists, the Fata Morgana is a complex optical phenomenon in the atmosphere consisting of several forms of mirages observed at sea and in deserts. The light from the sun's rays is ...

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WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a fast and accurate flexible optical skin that can be used to read Braille. The advance could not only improve access to information for people who are blind ...

Some Lehigh Valley residents recently got to see the rare weather phenomenon known as “diamond dust”, according to forecasters. Ray Martin, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in ...

Fire whirl, fire devil, fire tornado or even firenado — scientists, firefighters and regular folks use multiple terms to describe similar phenomena, and they don’t always agree on what’s what.