Purple Isn’t Real, Science Says. Your Brain Is Just Making It Up.

You might say it’s just a pigment of your imagination ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Purple isn’t real? Wild science claim says your brain fakes the color

Physicists and vision scientists are lining up behind a provocative claim: the rich color we call purple is not a property of light at all, but a story the brain tells itself. Light in the real world ...
EurekAlert!

New co-assembly strategy unlocks robust circularly polarized luminescence across the color spectrum

Prof Lin Zhiqun (centre) with co-first author Dr Zhang Mingyue (left) and co-first author Dr Kim Minju (right). Researchers at the College of Design and Engineering (CDE) at the National University of ...
The Telegraph

Where does black fall on the color spectrum? A color scientist explains

(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 ...
Ars Technica

DIY measuring colour temperature

Is there a sufficiently reliable way to get an acceptable measure of the actual colour temperature of the the light generated by an LED bulb, using generic hardware and/or software? Maybe there's an ...
Moviefone

Colour: The Spectrum of Science (2015)

We live in a world ablaze with colour. Rainbows and rainforests, oceans and humanity, Earth is the most colourful place we know of. But the colours we see are far more complex and fascinating than ...