Then there’s brown. 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 ...

Discover the strange reason Sir Isaac Newton included indigo in the rainbow! Uncover the mystical, historical, and scientific journey of this controversial color and its surprising impact.

How color works. Unsurprising to some people, but most of what we learn in primary school about color is wrong. We are taught the rainbow is composed of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet ...

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 ...