Isaac Newton performed the first experiment using glass prisms to reveal the rainbow colors in white light. Fairview/Miss Jewell Elementary School students replicated Newton’s triangular prism ...

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 ...

Isaac Newton was the first to demonstrate through his famous prism experiments that color is intrinsic to light. As part of those experiments, he also divvied up the spectrum in his own idiosyncratic ...

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it’s fair to say the general public has rendered science plain. The accumulation of data in controlled situations isn’t, after all, loveliness embodied. But an ...