It was around 1870 when the British physicist John William Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, first found an explanation for why the sky is blue: blue light from the sun is scattered the most when ...

On a bright, clear day, the sky stretches above us in a brilliant shade of blue. But have you ever wondered why? The answer lies in a fascinating phenomenon known as Rayleigh scattering ...

It’s such a simple motif – a woman at or by a window – yet, as curator Jennifer Sliwka ably demonstrates in this show, is one that contains hidden depths. Football is a simple game, as Gary Lineker ...