The color wheel was first developed by English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered that white light (what we perceive as colorless daylight) is composed of a spectrum of ...

MOLINE, Ill. — A rare and intense geomagnetic storm in mid-May put on a brilliant display of the Northern Lights across much of the United States. Depending on where you live, you likely saw quite a ...

One of the most unusual sights in the world is a glacier. Glaciers are found in mountain locations and in the coldest regions on earth. They are often a surprising and beautiful blue color. But snow ...

It's an age-old question and one that any meteorologist hears quite often. Why is the sky blue? It has to do with light waves and how they travel through our atmosphere. The light from our sun travels ...

Michael Murdoch is a member and former board member of the Inter-Society Color Council, part of the Color Literacy Project. People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, ...

The durability of certain colors combined with history and symbolism have a big hand in why so many countries use colors like red and not black. At the Olympic Games, the vibrant display of national ...