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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...