Think fast: What's your favorite color? If you said blue, you're probably not alone. A few years ago, the BBC reported that, after looking at non-scientific Crayola surveys of children and ...

A new test called "Is my blue your blue?" reveals how different -- or similar -- your color perceptions are compared to everyone else. First there was “the dress,” then there was the sneakers, now ...

When I was much younger, I would have said that blue was my favorite color. I had a blue 10-speed bicycle, and I loved to stare up into a brilliant blue sky. As I got older, though, I realized that I ...

Like many people, Amy Morin, a psychotherapist and author of “13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do,” loves to be surrounded by the color blue. So much so, in fact, that she lives on a sailboat in ...

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Blood is synonymous with bright red or deep maroon, but it certainly doesn’t generally bring to mind shades of blue. But ...

Egyptian blue (EB) is a heterogeneous multi-phase blue pigment originating in Egypt ≈5000 years ago. While cuprorivaite (CaCuSi 4 O 10) is the primary chromophore, color of the powdered pigment ...