The color purple has long been a symbol of royalty, creativity, and mystery. But according to science, it’s also something else: a figment of our imaginations.

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“Purple, not to be confused with violet, is actually a large range of colors represent by different hues created when red, blue, or violet mix,” the academy explains.

A new optical-illusion study in the journal Science asks whether a series colorful dots is purple, blue or proof that humans are doomed to a lifetime of sadness and poor decisions.

The bisexual flag was created in 1998 by activist Michael Page. The flag has three colors: pink, purple and blue. Here's what they represent.

A Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist found a mistake in a famous model that designers and programmers use to translate color to pixels.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo are all just as real. But purple? Well, purple is just your brain’s way of resolving confusion. That’s right.

Colors with extremely short wavelengths, like violet and blue, scatter out much easier due to their short wavelengths. This “scattering” effect is what creates our color in the sky!

We're nearly done gathering 2024 Color of the Year picks, as the Benjamin Moore paint company has chosen "Blue Nova," a blue-violet meant to spark adventure, as its top pick.

The violet flowers where the bees dwell produced far more nectar than the next most rewarding flower color, blue. So bee colonies that preferred violet harvested more nectar, findings detailed in ...