David DiLaura, an emeritus professor at the University of Colorado, was working on his comprehensive bibliography listing every significant scientific volume on optics when he made an unexpected ...

Color is a subtle tool that can transport us from our ordinary lives to extraordinary worlds of cinema Peel back the layers of history and look at how color was first ...

If you asked people strolling down Fifth Avenue to name a genius, most would probably cite Albert Einstein. "Ask them to name another one, it would be (Isaac) Newton," said Mordechai Feingold, curator ...

Among Newton's odd experiments were staring at a solar eclipse and wedging a needle behind his eyeball. NY Post composite/Mike Guillen Isaac Newton was a legendary scientist best known for ...

Since Isaac Newton, colour has often been equated with visual music. Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, showing at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), takes a different view. It ...