For years, many scientists assumed that the chameleon’s ability to change colors came from its ability to move pigments around inside of its cells; however, it seems that this isn’t the case at all.

Clad in a white lab coat and safety goggles, Kate Nichols looks no different from the other members of Paul Alivisatos nanotechnology research group at the University of California, Berkeley. But ...

Color has been an intense topic of interest for thousands of years. Mathematicians, philosophers, physicists, physiologists, poets, and other disciplines have all contributed to our understanding of ...

How does color work, and how does the type of light source you use affect the colors you see? Appliance Science looks at the science of light and color. Richard Baguley Richard Baguley has been ...

Mathematicians have studied knots for centuries, but a new material is showing why some knots are better than others. One sunny day last summer, Mathias Kolle, a professor at the Massachusetts ...

Researchers suggest that dark matter might subtly color light red or blue as it passes through, revealing traces of its ...

Debashis Chanda had trouble finding a physicist who could paint. The researchers in his nanoscience lab at the University of Central Florida had already worked out the kinks in the high-end machinery ...

Industrial courses for the color imaging community will be offered June 4–7 by Rochester Institute of Technology’s Munsell Color Science Laboratory, part of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging ...