The human brain literally glows, but with a light so faint that it remains invisible to the naked eye. Canadian researchers ...

People from cultures across the world have been looking at Mars since ancient times. Because it appears reddish, it has often ...

OKI (TOKYO: 6703) , in collaboration with NTT Innovative Devices Corporation (Headquarters: Kanagawa Prefecture; President & CEO: Hidehiro Tsukano; "NTT Innovative Devices" hereinafter), has ...

Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient ...

What is ultraviolet light, and where does it come from? Learn how UV radiation is classified, measured, and used in medicine, ...

SpaceX’s Starlink satellites were known to interfere with visible light astronomical observations, but many have now been ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption event.

As a result, purple and magenta are known as "nonspectral" colors, because they don't really exist as actual electromagnetic ...

The question of whether the electromagnetic waves emitted by living tissues contain information about those tissues is ...

I was asked at a recent event if the colors we see in photos of celestial objects are real, and if any photos we see from ...

In a Swedish lab, scientists have done something that could ripple across the world’s communication networks. They’ve built a ...