Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen volcano appears to glow electric blue at night, but the colour does not come from lava. Instead, ...

Pure water is indeed colourless, but large bodies often appear blue due to light absorption. Reflection of the sky plays a ...

When you take the sky and the ocean out of the equation, blue is surprisingly rare in nature. Less than one in ten plants have blue flowers, and it isn't common in animals, either. One reason is that ...

When we think of blood, the colour red usually comes to mind. But in the animal kingdom, some creatures have blood that ...

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Adrian Dyer receives funding from The Australian Research Council. At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in an answer of “blue”. Why is it that ...

You step onto a plane, and nothing jumps out straight away. The colours feel familiar, even if you have not flown that ...