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

For most of us, the first time we would have learned about indigo would have been in school, when we were taught color theory and the acronym for the colors of the rainbow: ROYGBIV. Of course ...

It turns out that one of the colors we see in the world every single day is actually just a pigment of our imagination — er, sorry, figment of our imagination. Scientists say it's a sort of collective ...

Of his rainbow experiment Newton wrote that he had projected ... In his diagrams, which showed how colors corresponded to notes, Newton introduced two colors—orange and indigo—corresponding to half ...

When this happens, light becomes separated into a rainbow of colors—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo (blue-violet), and violet. In this activity, you can make your own rainbow.

Scientists have detailed the one popular color that doesn't 'exist' and the strange reason why we still see it.