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

Jerry Parsons, a horticulturist at Texas Cooperative Extension, created several varieties of bluebonnets during his career, ...

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 ...

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

According to Scientific American, the purple hue isn’t exactly ... yellow phosphor that filters blue wavelengths and ultimately produces a bright white light. The thickness of that layer ...

The light that comes out is purple rather than blue because with the loss of some of the yellow layer, the mix of blue and yellow light tilts strongly toward blue – creating a light that appears ...