How the color of St. Patrick’s Day went from blue to green
St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color ...
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“Is the colour you see the same as the colour I see?” — How I explored the hidden stories of our planet’s colours
What do you mean, you think it’s blue? Of course it isn’t! The other thing that stands out about colour – both the colours we do see and the ones that we don’t (ultraviolet, infrared and ...
Just4Kids: Why is the sky blue?
It was around 1870 when the British physicist John William Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, first found an explanation for why the sky is blue: Blue light from the Sun is scattered the most when ...