The process of changing leaf colors is often referred to as “fall foliage.” But what exactly happens scientifically to cause this change?

Humanity is lucky to reside on a planet circling a star with plentiful radiation, illuminating the world around us in ...

By Gretchen A. Peck Walking into a paint store or the paint department at one of the largest home-improvement stores can be ...

A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the emergence of colorful fruits and flowers. And there has been a dramatic explosion of color signals in ...

A native New Zealand insect that once mimicked its toxic neighbor has changed color in deforested areas, in a striking ...

With cooler temperatures affecting the plains here's a deep dive into how the snowfall on the ground can change temperatures.

Unlike other birds, which get pigments from their diets, parrots produce their own—but scientists never fully understood the ...

From the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro to the shoulders of pirates: parrots are synonymous with color for people across the world. In a study published in the journal Science, scientists from The ...

More states are requiring students to take a foundational computer science class to graduate—employing a powerful policy lever to bridge long-standing gender, racial, and socioeconomic gaps in course ...

Hannah Butler was always the little girl who wanted to be a doctor. It did not matter that she saw few if any doctors of ...

In these science snapshots, “All Science. No Fiction.” creator Jes Burns features the most interesting, wondrous and hopeful science coming out of the Pacific Northwest. And remember ...

California is banning them in schools. The FDA says they’re fine. But synthetic dyes added to food to make them more colorful have a long, troubled history.