It is out with millennial pink and in with the blues instead - thanks to the butterfly pea or blue pea flower. The flower, which is used in food and drink as a natural food colouring and barely has ...

Nature is brimming with color in almost every season. While the majority of colors are matte, some are shiny. Evolutionary ...

Adrian Dyer receives funding from The Australian Research Council. At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in an answer of “blue”. Why is it that ...

Have you ever noticed how blue in nature feels rare and almost magical? You can see the endless sky and deep oceans painted in blue, yet when you look at plants, animals, or rocks, the colour is ...

AT FIRST GLANCE, blue is everywhere in our Pacific Northwest corner of the natural world — bluebird skies, rivers, lakes and saltwater surround us. However, in the world of flowering plants, fewer ...

The blue rose has long been referred to by horticulturalists as the "Holy Grail" of the plant breeding world. Now what is being described as the world's first genetically-modified blue rose is about ...

Quirks and Quarks8:37‘Where’s the blue food?’ Scientists find source for natural blue food dye in red cabbage Food scientists who've long been searching for a natural alternative for blue artificial ...

Blue is remarkably rare in nature because true blue pigments are almost non-existent in living organisms. Instead, most natural blue results from structural coloration, where microscopic arrangements ...