Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is nothing more beautiful in the sky than a colorful rainbow after a storm. Sometimes we catch just a glimpse and other ...

My commentaries in Forbes tend to focus on weather, climate, and broadly related science. I am a scientist and educator not a journalist so my perspectives are often motivated by certain angles that I ...

White light can be blinding, cold, unforgiving. Our physical reality often finds it too much as well, splitting it apart any chance it gets. Plants are green because such wavelengths of light help it ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons / Frederic Edwin Church / 1866. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco How many colors are in the rainbow? Seven said Sir Isaac Newton. Of course, Newton knew that a spectrum is ...

Sunlight holds hidden colors. Raindrops act like prisms, bending light. This bending separates colors, creating a rainbow.