Here’s one color surprise humans never got to see. From 3 billion years ago to roughly 600 million years ago, the Earth’s ...

The disappearance of sea ice in polar regions due to global warming not only increases the amount of light entering the ocean ...

How big they are: The smallest plants, known as desmids and picozoa, are single-celled algae that are less than 0.0004 inches ...

Animals with ultraviolet color patterns can be found all over nature. Here’s what we know about what purpose these patterns ...

Is color real? Does everyone see the same color green? How many colors can the human eye see? Color helps us to remember objects, influences our purchases and affects our ...

New research claims that Earth's oceans could one day turn purple as our ongoing fight with climate change continues.

Instead of showing up as simply red or green, each pixel contains information on hundreds different wavelengths of light ... color changes that radioactive metals produce in the chlorophyll ...

Since the ocean color is so telling ... on factors like reflectance and chlorophyll,” Robbins explains. Reflectance is the amount of light the ocean reflects upward relative to the amount ...

Instead of showing up as simply red or green, each pixel contains information on hundreds different wavelengths of light ... color changes that radioactive metals produce in the chlorophyll ...

The team found the molecule porphyrin causes the fur of bandicoots, quolls, and possums to glow bright pink under black light. Meanwhile metabolites of tryptophan produce a blue shade. Sometimes the ...

with the Greek name “Chromophore,” referring to the molecules that give color to all things in nature, from melanin to chlorophyll,” they continued. Aside from exhibitions, the space will ...