First-ever images of living human retinas have yielded a surprise about how we perceive our world. Researchers at the University of Rochester have found that the number of color-sensitive cones in the ...

People's perception of color changes depending on the season, new research suggests. In particular, people see yellow differently on a grey day in the middle of winter, compared with how they see it ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Rearing experimental animals under special illumination, researchers have found new evidence that early visual experience is indispensable for the development of normal color perception. Rearing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visual representation of color spaces aligning with a mathematical apex. (LANL) Beauty may lie in the eye of the beholder, but ...

On a flight from New York City to Berlin, the route map might look a little curious: the shortest path between these two cities is surely a straight line, and yet the flight path curves distinctly, ...

Technology used by UC Berkeley researchers to see a new color may allow for development of new ways to see and research eye diseases. The machine, dubbed Oz, was previously used to shoot lasers into ...

A project to improve data visualization ended up overturning a century-old model of color space that underpins industry standards for color everywhere from digital displays to paint. The opportunity ...

Bevil Conway, an artist and neuroscience researcher at the National Institutes of Health, is crazy about color. He particularly loves watercolors made by the company Holbein. “They have really nice ...

For an enlightening perspective on how primates acquire color vision, consider baby monkeys. These infants’ ability to recognize basic colors in different environmental settings depends on their prior ...

With 12 colour receptors, the mantis shrimp seems visually unmatched. But studies reveal that their visual system likely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration: Guardian Design (Illustration: Guardian Design) It started with an argument over a blanket. “I’m a visual ...