Atmospheric optics were showing off along the Oregon Coast Friday evening as another fall-like storm moved onshore.

KOIN 6 Meteorologist Josh Cozart explains the 22-degree halo formation seen over Seaside Friday, September 13, 2024.

KOIN 6 Meteorologist Josh Cozart captures a time-lapse of a 22-degree halo filling the sky of Seaside, OR on Friday.

Adaptive optics is a branch of optics and photonics ... when light from an astronomical object passes through the Earth’s atmosphere, for example.

This ambipolar electric field is as fundamental to Earth as gravity and the magnetic field, and is the source of the flow of atmospheric ions into space known as the polar wind. For decades ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two Oregon businessmen have been accused of cheating real estate investors and commercial lenders out of more than $18 million. On Tuesday, 54-year-old Sherwood resident ...

The multidisciplinary study of the transmission of light through the ocean, including the development and use of novel imaging technologies. Research interests are broadly concerned with the use of ...

One such term is a “cap” in the atmosphere, which is a critical factor in severe weather forecasting. At the surface, we have hot and humid air in place. That air typically will rise through ...

The average American is expected to purchase nearly four pieces of eyewear in 2024. To Warby Parker, those frames can build a lot of square footage. But should they be filling online baskets ...

My colleague Jeff Benjamin suggested in a recent chat that perhaps what Apple needs to do is offer a single camera module, but with swappable optics. Wouldn’t it be cool if a future iPhone model ...

Recently, some physicists have been investigating the generation of "laser light" in open air without the use of optical cavities, a phenomenon known as cavity-free lasing in atmospheric air.