Until the Spanish discovered cochineals in the New World, harvesting and crushing parasitic scale insects that live on oak trees was the predominate means of producing high quality red dye. Early ...

A bright-red pigment housed inside a small stone vial could be one of the oldest known examples of lipstick in the world. Archaeologists recovered the Bronze Age cosmetic in 2001 in Jiroft, a city in ...

Online color blindness tests may give people an idea of whether they may be color blind and if so, which type of color blindness they might have. This information comes from the National Eye Institute ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Prince Ghuman covers neuroscience-based marketing strategy & tactics. Color is fundamental to your perception of the world around ...

There are three main types of color vision deficiency: red-green, blue-yellow, and complete. Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, affects the way you perceive color and can make it hard to ...

It's the most wonderful time of the year — at least for Christmas-lovers anyway. If you count yourself among them, then you may already have your tree picked out, the lights hung and your red and ...