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 ...

A century after Erwin Schrödinger sketched out a bold vision for how we perceive color, scientists have finally filled in the missing pieces. A Los Alamos team used advanced geometry to show that hue, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Research on the perception of color differences is helping resolve a century-old understanding of color developed by Erwin Schrödinger. Los Alamos scientist Roxana Bujack led a team that used geometry ...

Color perception depends heavily on how the brain processes visual contrast. This video presents a quick illusion designed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the time-honored tradition goes, many lovebirds may be seeing red this Valentine's Day. The color of blood and fire, red has long been synonymous with intense emotions, such as love, passion, ...