While violet hits your eye with a specific wavelength, purple only exists in your perception — a clever construct built from conflicting input.

Purple, a color often associated with royalty and creativity, isn't a true color of light. Instead, it's a creation of our ...

It turns out that one of the colors we see in the world every single day is actually just a pigment of our imagination — er, sorry, figment of our imagination. Scientists say it's a sort of collective ...

The human eye does not actually see purple, as purple is not a color on the visual spectrum ... has something purple doesn’t—its own wavelength of light. Anyone who ever ended up with a ...

The Sun appears yellow from Earth due to atmospheric scattering, but in reality, it's a white star emitting all visible ...

Scientists have detailed the one popular color that doesn't 'exist' and the strange reason why we still see it.