My commentaries in Forbes tend to focus on weather, climate, and broadly related science. I am a scientist and educator not a journalist so my perspectives are often motivated by certain angles that I ...

A rainbow is caused by sunlight and atmospheric conditions. Light enters a water droplet, slowing down and bending as it goes from air to denser water. The light reflects off the inside of the droplet ...

DENVER — The Front Range bid farewell to a rainy weather pattern Tuesday evening with a round of double rainbows. One thing you may have noticed, if you were lucky enough to spot one, was that the ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons / Frederic Edwin Church / 1866. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco How many colors are in the rainbow? Seven said Sir Isaac Newton. Of course, Newton knew that a spectrum is ...