light scattering

Residents of Canoas, in Rio Grande do Sul, are checking the forecast as light rain and cooler temperatures open the day in the city. Local coverage notes the chill and scattered drizzle, with people looking for what to expect over the coming hours and whether conditions will improve.

Physicists report that giant light fluctuations can be used to expose hidden correlations inside opaque materials, where light normally scatters unpredictably and images cannot form. By studying these fluctuations, researchers can probe internal structures that conventional imaging cannot reach, an approach with potential uses in materials science, medical imaging and other fields where transparency is impossible.

The weather in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, stands at 28.49°C with scattered clouds, humidity of 67% and light winds of around 5.27 metres per second. Residents and observers are sharing the local conditions as daily life in the area continues under difficult circumstances.

Indian physicist Sir C.V. Raman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his discovery of the Raman effect, the scattering of light by molecules that shifts its wavelength. The finding, made in 1928, made Raman the first Asian and first non-white scientist to receive a Nobel Prize in a branch of science.

Researchers have demonstrated a technique that measures seawater temperature and salinity at the same time using Brillouin scattering, an optical method that analyzes how light shifts when it interacts with sound waves in a medium. The approach could offer a new way to monitor ocean conditions, complementing conventional instruments deployed on buoys, floats and research vessels.

Gaza is seeing scattered clouds with a temperature of around 25°C, humidity at 72%, and light winds of roughly 3.8 metres per second. The mild conditions are being shared as a routine weather update for the Palestinian territory, tagged under Palestine and weather.