The world is awash with the color purple — lavender flowers, amethyst gemstones, plums, eggplants and purple emperor butterflies. But if you look closely at the visible-light portion of the ...
Though they're so common that we don't typically give them much thought, lights are fascinating elements of the modern world. By sending an electrical current through a conductor, extreme amounts of ...
From early childhood, we’ve been taught to recognize the colors of the rainbow—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet—using the iconic acronym ROYGBIV. We see them in nature, on color ...