Quick Take Vulturine guinea fowl’s blue and white plumage comes from feather structure, not pigments, creating vivid, ...

In a way, yes - but not because the snow itself has color. According to IFL Science, when sunlight penetrates a snowpack, the ...

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Blue moons, blood moons and honey moons have all worked their way into fiction and folklore, but the changing hue of our planet's biggest satellite remains rooted in science. The moon doesn't produce ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

The human eye perceives color using three types of cones, but no natural light can stimulate just the the cones associated with medium-wavelength light in the visible spectrum. A new tool, nicknamed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The quandong’s fruit appear intensely blue, but without ...

In late February 2015, the internet seemed to be a simpler place. Tumblr was still popular, Twitter was still Twitter and "going viral" was something of a more ubiquitous experience. And nothing that ...

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