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

Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t make any sense, but ...

How can we measure visible light? The electromagnetic spectrum includes all forms of light energy, known as electromagnetic radiation. (1) Different types of electromagnetic radiation such as radio ...

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

“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 ...

You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true nature of objects emitting or reflecting various kinds of otherwise ...

They're your eyes, and they receive signals that fall in the range of visible light ... There's lots to discover in the electromagnetic spectrum. Here's a tour that begins with radio waves ...