More than 30 years ago the Food and Drug Administration told the cosmetics industry that it could no longer use an artificial color called FD&C Red No. 3, also known as Red Dye No. 3 and Red Dye 3.

There’s just something about red. Bold, fiery, commanding — red knows how to catch your attention. Accordingly, you might not be surprised to learn all the powerful concepts the color can represent.

Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before joining CNET, she covered crime at People Magazine and ...

The color wheel was first developed by English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered that white light (what we perceive as colorless daylight) is composed of a spectrum of ...