But despite attempts from the best scientists and philosophers, what color truly is, if it’s even anything tangible, remains elusive. When it comes to the vexing problem of red or any other gradient, ...

Cosmetics firm M.A.C. offers 200 named colors of lipstick, nearly all of them reddish. While the eye can see fine distinctions, it’s hard to remember a color without a name.

Here's what all the colors really stand for. The Pride Flag first appeared in 1978, ... (also known as the Rainbow Flag). It all began in 1978, when Gilbert Baker created a custom-made, ...

It takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way. It happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering, named after a British scientist who first ...

There’s no brown in the rainbow. The color map reveals that brown is actually dark yellow. (This can be confirmed by projecting a spot of yellow light on a screen in a dark room.