History provides an incredible perspective of color. As colors have made their mark in various time periods and socioeconomic environments, they tell the story of societies. The onset of trend ...

Pigments found on unearthed mammal fossils are now being used by researchers to determine what specific colors the extinct animals could have had during its time. An international team of scientists ...

Similar to Navy planes during World War II, the helicopters of the 1st Cavalry had a distinctive but intentionally vague series of colors and symbols to discern each unit within the Division. The ...

April 11 (UPI) --Scientists have successfully determined the color of an ancient butterfly wing. It's the first time scientists have identified the color of a 200-million-year-old insect. The ...

When baby animals such as ducklings are born, they begin to identify and follow their mother around through a process called imprinting. Scientists say a duckling can imprint on its mother in as ...

The world might seem a little grayer than usual when we're down in the dumps and we often talk about 'feeling blue' -- new research suggests that the associations we make between emotion and color go ...

Attention typography nerds: a new doodad called The Spector identifies fonts so you can stop getting it wrong. Among the millions of techie innovations that we didn't know we needed until we had it, ...

Wouldn’t it make life easier for designers and artists if they could identify the colors of surfaces and objects with precision? The Nix Mini Color Sensor V2 ($84, originally $94; store.cnn.com) can ...