The single-beam mirage effect, also known as photothermal deflection, is studied using a free-standing, highly aligned carbon nanotube aerogel sheet as the heat source. The extremely low thermal ...

The Chicago skyline showing up in a mirage from Stevensville, MI shoreline on April 17, 2017. (Photo courtesy Nancy Sherwood) Strange sights are appearing now on Michigan's Lake Michigan shoreline. It ...

BAE Systems has said it will develop a laser-powered mirage-maker for the military within 50 years. The system, Laser Developed Atmospheric Lens (LDAL), would work by using a “high pulsed laser system ...

NATURAL mirage is due to the passage of rays of light through strata of air in which the refractive index is a function of the height of the ray above the ground. In these strata the air, though not ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — On hot days like this, the weather likes to play a trick on us and make us think that there’s something in the distance we desperately need. The weather, and specifically ...