People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Human eyes perceive visible light as this array of colors. You may notice that some colors you can ...

We sometimes think of colors as objective properties of objects, much like shape or volume. But research has found that we experience colors differently, depending on gender, national origin, ...

Oscar Wilde once said, “Mere color can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.” And he may have not known how right he was. Have you ever felt green with envy? Sang the blues? Been given the ...

It turns out that one of the colors we see in the world every single day is actually just a pigment of our imagination — er, sorry, figment of our imagination. Scientists say it's a sort of collective ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michael J. Murdoch, Rochester Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Advertisement ...