Emerald green has long promised a vivid, almost electric color on canvas and paper, yet the same chemistry that delivers that brilliance quietly primes it to fail. Over time, many of these greens ...

Green is the color of nature, the environment and sustainability, but ironically the pigments used to create the color are not all that healthy or environmentally friendly. Many green pigments are ...

Chemists have discovered that the same crystal structure they identified two years ago to create what may be the world's best blue pigment can also be used with different elements to create other ...

Normal visual pigment gene arrays on the human X chromosome have a red gene at the first and a green gene at the second positions. More than half of the arrays have additional green genes downstream, ...

The colors of art change not just with trends, but availability as well. For reasons of being incredibly poisonous, expensive, or just involving way too many snails, here are five pigments that have ...