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

In an innovative discovery that defied centuries of colour theory, scientists revealed that purple isn’t a real colour at all—but a clever illusion created by the brain. According to new research, ...

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

Arizona is known for having gorgeous sunsets because of the climate conditions. But do you know what the rarest sunset colors are? Here's the science.

In his diagrams, which showed how colors corresponded to notes, Newton introduced two colors—orange and indigo—corresponding to half steps in the octatonic scale. Whether Newton’s friend delineated ...