Oregon State University pigment researchers are using a rare mineral discovered in Norway more than a century ago as a road ...

If the blue were a pigment, the feather would be the same color from any angle. You can’t hold a blue bullfrog up to check for reflective light so you’ll have to take science’s word for why ...

But up close, veins of multiple pigments peek through. “What you see is sometimes 11 layers of transparent colors,” she says. ... The effect is a second, complementary color wheel.

Artists use a color wheel for inspiration; to help select colors and mix pigments. Last month, a group of writers at Slate.com created this clever cartoon color wheel, ...

Blue is the most difficult color to make, and we found it extremely stable, so that made me really excited, and we find this to be the first new blue pigment in 200 years." On why it's so hard to ...

CORVALLIS, Oregon (KTVZ) – An Oregon State University researcher who made color history in 2009 with a vivid blue pigment has developed durable, reddish magentas inspired by lunar mineralogy and ...

EASTON, Pa. (AP) -- Crayola's new crayon color will be based on a blue pigment discovered by Oregon State University scientists in 2009.The OSU scientists accidentally discovered the brilliant ...