PORTLAND (WGME) -- If you were out and about on Monday evening, you may have caught a beautiful rainbow on your way home. There's also a chance you saw a double rainbow. Why not take this time to ...

For most of human history, rainbows were considered tangible objects. But we now know these beautiful atmospheric apparitions ...

When it comes to the vexing problem of red or any other gradient, when we both agree that a thing is some color, is it really ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Rainbows are one of nature's most stunning displays. They form when light enters and bends out of raindrops in the air. The conditions have to be perfect in order ...

In the natural world, the absence of bright colours is anything but dull. Black or white, or combinations of both, adorn some of nature's most charismatic creatures. The giant panda, native to the ...

This millipede is shocking by name and by nature - it produces deadly hydrogen cyanide from its defensive glands, a trait that also gives it a distinctive almond smell. The species was first described ...

We are taught the rainbow is composed of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet, and sometimes that there are invisible colors, infrared and ultraviolet, on either side. And we learn that ...

How are the millions of brain cells connected to achieve the different facets of neuronal function? Until now, we have been limited to studying only a few dye-filled or fluorescent-protein ...

on the 25th inst, a circular rainbow was visible at 2.30 P. M. upon the upper surface of light white clouds that drifted from S. up the rocky valley which was E. of where we stood—though the ...