A week or so ago, I got a question on Facebook that was relayed from one of the kids of a college friend, which I'll paraphrase as "What's the physics explanation of what gives objects their color?" ...

Clad in a white lab coat and safety goggles, Kate Nichols looks no different from the other members of Paul Alivisatos nanotechnology research group at the University of California, Berkeley. But ...

Color has been an intense topic of interest for thousands of years. Mathematicians, philosophers, physicists, physiologists, poets, and other disciplines have all contributed to our understanding of ...