While violet hits your eye with a specific wavelength, purple only exists in your perception — a clever construct built from ...

A recent claim by scientists has stunned the internet: one color we all know and love doesn’t technically exist. Despite its ...

Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t make any sense, but ...

When I learned about colors in grade school everything started with red, yellow, and blue and getting fancier colors was easy. I mixed some blue into my yellow to get green, or into red to get ...

From brilliant blues to fiery reds, discover how nature crafts diamonds in every color, and why some shades are rarer than ...

The sunlight pours in through the window, translating color to vision. Claire is making a rainbow. She picks up a crayon. "This is ‘thistle.' It's what Eeyore eats." Next she chooses "dandelion ...