Ever walked into a room and felt instantly calmer, only to realize it was painted light blue? That’s no coincidence. Light ...
Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with oxygen.
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 ...
Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising ...