Our world is awash with a rainbow of colours, but certain shades can have a surprising impact on our ability to concentrate, our mood and even the flavours we experience. A few years ago, a strange ...

Seeing seven colours in a rainbow is down to what we expect to see, not reality. In fact, there are many more colours in a rainbow, as our readers explain Around 1665, Isaac Newton performed ...

Charles Darwin took a copy of Patrick Syme's book, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, with him on his Beagle voyage in 1831 and used it to make natural history observations. A new partnership between ...

As Pantone's "colour of the year 2025" is announced, we explore the paint shades that are trending now – and find out which colours can improve our mood. Deciding on the colour of a room at home is a ...

Colour plays an outsized role in the human experience of modern life. It invests both natural and synthetic worlds with beauty and meaning. Colours don’t deny universalism — a red sign will make you ...

The human eye can physically perceive millions of colours. But we don’t all recognise these colours in the same way. Some people can’t see differences in colours – so called colour blindness – due to ...

When people step out of their homes on Friday, they usually step out with utter happiness because why not? The weekend is ...