From early childhood, we’ve been taught to recognize the colors of the rainbow—red, orange, yellow, green, blue ... visible light spectrum. Zab Johnson, an expert, notes that purple is ...

This is where the mysterious purple coloring could come in. It's entirely possible that over time, this phosphor layer has peeled away from the blue light, altering the color of the street lights ...

Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t make any sense, but ...

It turns out that one of the colors we see in the world every single day is actually just a pigment of our imagination — er, sorry, figment of our imagination. Scientists say it's a sort of collective ...

Scientists have revealed that purple, a popular color often associated with royalty, is fake. A figment of our imaginations.