A recent claim by scientists has stunned the internet: one color we all know and love doesn’t technically exist. Despite its ...

“It has no justification in experiment exactly; it just represents something that he’s imposing upon the color spectrum by analogy with music.” Of his rainbow experiment Newton wrote that he had ...

Popular Mechanics reports that purple is a “pigment of your imagination”: The human eye doesn’t actually see purple.

White light is made of a spectrum of different colours ... Light is refracted when it enters the prism, and each colour is refracted by a different amount. This means that the light leaving ...