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 ...

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

Scientists have revealed that purple, a popular color often associated with royalty, is fake. A figment of our imaginations.

Each type of light has a different wavelength and frequency ... The electromagnetic spectrum is a rainbow of light waves that surround us — but we only see a small part of it. From radio waves to ...

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

It is easy to remember them by using the name “Roy G. Biv.” A rainbow is a spectrum of visible light. Each color has a different wavelength. To separate white light into these colors, the light needs ...

The rainbow shows us all the individual wavelengths of visible light in order, from the longer wavelengths (red) to the shortest that we can see (violet). These are the purest colours – each one ...