Discover the strange reason Sir Isaac Newton included indigo in the rainbow! Uncover the mystical, historical, and scientific journey of this controversial color and its surprising impact.

The ridges of the mortar in between the bricks emit a blue hue, the color of the ocean: indigo, a name that refers to the shrub, the dye the plant produces and the color itself. This crumbling ...

Utah State University Extension is bringing traditional indigo dyeing back into home gardens with a comprehensive three-part ...

Researchers found that forming indigo directly in the yarn through the engineering of an enzyme called indican eliminates the requirement for reducing chemicals while still ending up as the color ...

To produce this classic garment, producers rely on indigo dye, the only molecule known to provide jeans’ unique, beloved color. While indigo itself is naturally derived from a plant, growing ...

"We are creating a lot of different colors but also really navigating the relationship between the color and nature," Chang said. The class uses plants like indigo and marigold to create hues of ...

(If, for some ungodly reason, you want to dig deeper (hate that phrase) I have written about conjugated single and double bonds, which frequently give organic molecules color.) Indigo (left) and ...