You might think that explaining why the sky is blue would be kind of simple. But even a brief explanation of it requires a lot of science. The colors of everything you see are produced in ...

It’s a simple question and one of the first often asked by inquisitive children: Why is the sky blue? The complex answer to this seemingly straightforward inquiry was explained by one of the most ...

T he sky isn't just blue by chance. I t takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way. I t happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering ...