How does color work, and how does the type of light source you use affect the colors you see? Appliance Science looks at the science of light and color. Richard Baguley Richard Baguley has been ...

How do you find the quality of the light a light bulb produces? Using the color rendering index, a measure of how well a light bulb illuminates a range of colors. Appliance Science looks at the ...

It is a bit tamer than you might imagine. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When you look up at the night sky, it's easy to think ...

For the past six years, the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has been working with a color chemist to produce paint pigments that correspond to each nanometer of the visible light spectrum.

Engineers are turning what used to be a bulky optics bench into something that fits on the tip of a finger, and the latest photonic chips go a step further by splitting a single laser into a ...