Scientists in the U.S. have developed a groundbreaking silicone variant that can conduct electricity, overturning the ...

Animals with ultraviolet color patterns can be found all over nature. Here’s what we know about what purpose these patterns serve.

And for once, I’m not exaggerating even a little bit. Different atomic elements absorb and emit light at very specific colors (the electrons zipping around the atom’s nucleus can only absorb ...

A newly discovered silicone variant is a semiconductor, University of Michigan researchers have discovered—upending ...

Scientists in China have developed contact lenses that let wearers see light normally invisible to the human eye.

University of Science and Technology of China has come up with a very clever invention that uses nanoparticles which absorb ...

Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow ...

When a molecule inside the cone cell absorbs a photon, it only activates the cone; at that point, no information about the light's color or intensity has been processed. Color vision arises when ...