The Secret Behind Light's Journey Through Space Visible light travels in electromagnetic waves, which we see as the colors of ...

Phytoplankton is an important component of the food-web and is predated by a wide variety of aquatic organisms, such as water ...

During a total solar eclipse, people may see some strange things. Sure, there’s the main event happening in the sky (SN: 1/4/24). But the world may also look a little different on the ground. For a ...

The rainbow looks different to a human than it does to a honeybee or a zebra finch. That’s because these animals can see colors that we humans simply can’t. Now scientists have developed a new video ...

How do you find the quality of the light a light bulb produces? Using the color rendering index, a measure of how well a light bulb illuminates a range of colors. Appliance Science looks at the ...

While humans possess three kinds of color-sensitive cones, birds have four. This is an Inside Science story. Hummingbirds can see colors humans can only imagine, an ability that now sheds light on an ...

Scientists have developed a see-through glass display with a high white light contrast ratio that smoothly transitions between a broad spectrum of colors when electrically charged. The technology ...