Ever wonder why the sky is blue on a clear day, but red when there are pollutants such as smoke in the air? Wildfire smoke fills the air with tiny particles. The particles, such as soot, ash, and ...

(Nanowerk News) When you look up at the sky and see clouds of wondrous shapes, or struggle to peer through dense, hazy fog, you’re seeing the results of ‘Mie scattering’, which is what happens with ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Over the past few weeks, Mother Nature has been putting on a show during the sunrises and sunsets, which is all thanks to the Canadian wildfire smoke that continues to move ...

Beijing is suffering its second sandstorm in two weeks, turning the sky yellow and making the sun appear blue and triggering weather warnings. The unusual weather in the Chinese capital is due to ...

ABSTRACT Continuous lidar observation was performed in Guangzhou, China, in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) observation campaign in July 2006 (PRD2006), using a two-wavelength Mie-scattering lidar (532 ...

DENVER (KDVR) — As wildfires burn across the Western Slope, people are seeing the effects hundreds of miles away with hazy skies, the smell of smoke and even a weather phenomenon that causes more ...

A team led by scientists at the University of Washington has designed and tested a 3D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. As they report in a paper published Oct.

This study is led by Dr. Wei Gong and Dr. Feiyue Mao from Wuhan University. The authors conducted simulation and retrieval for the spaceborne Aerosol and Cloud High Spectral Resolution Lidar (ACHSRL) ...