The Wordle word of the day on December 25 was prism, a word that feels almost unfairly elegant for something so relentlessly honest. A prism exists to intervene between appearance and understanding, ...

Although our eyes usually can't see them, visible light contains all the colors of the rainbow. This kind of light is called 'white light,' and it's the light we get from the sun, a lamp or a ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Rainbows are often seen as symbols of luck, and if you spot one, consider yourself lucky. That’s because a few things need to align, both in terms of weather and ...

Splitting white light into its constituent spectral components has been of interest ever since Newton first discovered the phenomenon of color separation. Many devices have since been conceived to ...