It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an ...

In this video, I show you how to create your own rainbow using just a glass of water, a flashlight, and a piece of white ...

VALLEY — The new STEM Education Center at Rainbow Elementary School was filled with intense, smiling students as they actively engaged in STEM activities at last week’s ribbon cutting.

Rates of obesity and associated fatty liver disease have risen as the world increasingly adopts energy-dense diets and ...

Rainbows required a number of scientists to actually explain how they form, including Isaac Newton. Light from the sun is made of multiple colors, not only the colors we can see, but also the colors ...

Scientists have used a novel method to create sustainable, rainbow-colored fibers using bacteria in the lab. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds. By Alexa Robles-Gil Millions of years ago, squid-like creatures called ammonites swam ...

The jewels nabbed in the Louvre heist may still be at large, but scientists have just closed the case on another gemstone mystery: what gives rare ammolite gems their rainbow shimmer. Ammolite comes ...

(via minutephysics) If you wander outside on a misty morning you may come across a white rainbow - called a fogbow! White rainbows need three things to form: mist, the sun, and you. White rainbows are ...

The weather conditions right now are very conducive to rainbows, but not just the ordinary, single rainbows. We had a lot of double rainbows in the past two days. Let’s look at why our sky has looked ...

The formation of a rainbow requires the observer to be between the sun and falling rain, with the rain in front and the sun behind. Sunlight passes from behind the observer, refracts as it enters each ...

Researchers at Columbia have created a chip that turns a single laser into a “frequency comb,” producing dozens of powerful light channels at once. Using a special locking mechanism to clean messy ...