We've all heard of birthstones - precious and semi-precious gems that align with the twelve calendar months of the year. But did you know every birth month also corresponds with a specific color? This ...

Today, naturalists who want to capture the precise color of a certain specimen can rely on color photography, safe in the knowledge that the hues can be preserved for exact recreation or reference.

At first thought, a color dictionary seems about as useful as a deer carcass to a vegan chef. In my usual fashion, after further investigation this device proved to be a bit more useful than I ...