Cerulean, azure, navy, royal … Much has been written about the color blue, the first human-made pigment. "Because blue contracts, retreats, it is the color of transcendence, leading us away in pursuit ...

Lightning first struck Mas Subramanian over 15 years ago. When he and his graduate student Andrew Smith put a mixture of rather mundane powders into the lab oven at Oregon State University, the pair ...

CORVALLIS, Oregon (KTVZ) – An Oregon State University researcher who made color history in 2009 with a vivid blue pigment has developed durable, reddish magentas inspired by lunar mineralogy and ...

We see colors in nature: a blue sky, a red frog, a peacock's feathers. But those colors are created by the reflection of light off atoms. To reproduce color for paints, cosmetics or dyes, we need ...

A smudge of blue on an ordinary-looking stone has forced archaeologists to rethink what Ice Age people in Europe could see, ...

In 2009, researchers at Oregon State University discovered YInMn Blue—the first new blue pigment identified in 200 years—while developing materials for use in electronics. Led by chemist Mas ...

Researchers have uncovered traces of arare blue pigment on a 13,000-year-old stone artifact from Germany. This groundbreaking discovery suggests that early humans had access to a much wider palette ...