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

Popular Mechanics reports that purple is a “pigment of your imagination”: The human eye doesn’t actually see purple.

Where does black fall on the color spectrum? – Utsav, age 17, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

Scientists have revealed that purple, a popular color often associated with royalty, is fake. A figment of our imaginations.

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

“Languages divide up the colour spectrum in lots of different ways,” she says. “Some languages have lots of words for colours; some languages have only a couple of words.” For ...

That’s what Colour: The Spectrum of Science is all about. As we were making the series, I asked members of the public for their questions relating to colour, and I’ve answered some of the most ...

Purple, a color often associated with royalty and creativity, isn't a true color of light. Instead, it's a creation of our ...

The UN officially created World Autism Awareness Day in 2007. Learn more about this year's theme, and the symbols and colors used for neurodivergence.

This is what gives us the huge richness of colour in our world when there’s only the simple spectrum of the rainbow as the raw material. It’s all about combinations, and we see each different ...