Can’t get enough rainbows? See photos and videos of double rainbows, moonbows, cloudbows, and more in a Science Friday article! Steven Businger saw this double rainbow outside his home in Hawaii in ...

Scientists in China have shown how a rather wide spectrum of light -- a rainbow of radiation -- can be trapped in a single structure. They propose to do this by sending the light rays into a ...

The higher your vantage point, the more likely you’ll see more of the rainbow’s circle. Chen Hui/VCG via Getty Images The legend goes that there is a pot of gold hidden at the end of every rainbow.

This summer I went on a family holiday to Cornwall, on the Helford River. The peninsula south of the river is, rather wonderfully, called The Lizard. Standing on its cliffs, you are at the ...

What if the universe had no beginning, and time stretched back infinitely without a big bang to start things off? That's one possible consequence of an idea called "rainbow gravity," so-named because ...

Physicists have applied a decade-old theory about how gravity is related to spacetime to the question of how the universe began and identified a possible fault in the widely-accepted idea that the ...

After two years of extensive upgrades, the Large Hadron Collider was warming up on March 21 for another round of experiments when a circuit controlling one of its massive magnets shorted out. Dismayed ...