That’s what Colour: The Spectrum of Science is all about. As we were making the series, I asked members of the public for their questions relating to colour, and I’ve answered some of the most ...

We live in a world ablaze with colour. Rainbows and rainforests, oceans and humanity, Earth is the most colourful place we know of. But the colours we see are far more complex and fascinating than ...

Neil Harbisson was born with a condition called achromatism - he has no colour vision at all. Working with doctors he has created an antenna that is permanently implanted into his skull. It allows him ...

Faced with a glorious spectrum of colour, songbirds, just like humans, look for the big picture. They can lump nearby hues in the colour spectrum into categories, such as shades that are generally ...

This is what gives us the huge richness of colour in our world when there’s only the simple spectrum of the rainbow as the raw material. It’s all about combinations, and we see each different ...