People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Human eyes perceive visible light as this array of colors. You may notice that some colors you can ...

For the past six years, the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has been working with a color chemist to produce paint pigments that correspond to each nanometer of the visible light spectrum.

(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 ...