This story from the New York Times details the scientific, yet accidental, discovery of a brilliant new blue pigment.
Blues have been among the most expensive and elusive pigments throughout history, not to mention many of them being toxic (indigo, anyone?), so this is appealing news, assuming the new blue will be affordable to reproduce.
This rivals the excitement of the discovery of mauve, that first artificial color that ushered in the creativity and possibility inherent in using artificial pigments in the form of aniline dye.
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