Walk into any children's clothing store and you'll see it immediately: the great divide. Blues, greens, reds, and blacks flood the boys' section, while pink and purple dominate the girls' area. But is ...

Lightning first struck Mas Subramanian over 15 years ago. When he and his graduate student Andrew Smith put a mixture of rather mundane powders into the lab oven at Oregon State University, the pair ...

The durability of certain colors combined with history and symbolism have a big hand in why so many countries use colors like red and not black. At the Olympic Games, the vibrant display of national ...

Scientists estimate that the human eye can distinguish up to 10 million colors. That’s pretty impressive, considering the interesting fact that we only have three types of color-perceiving rods in our ...

What does the United States, France and Chile all have in common? Among many things, each country has a flag encompassing a red, white and blue theme. You might've wondered such a question while ...