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

Synesthetes talk a big game, with their claims of hearing colors and seeing sounds – but is it all they say? A new reviewed ...

Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, causes a person to see colors differently from most other people. There are several types of color blindness. Color vision deficiency or loss has multiple ...

A new experiment into color vision has allowed a select group of human subjects to see a new color. Subjects describe the “unprecedented” color as a very saturated teal. Researchers are looking into ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward protecting the very cells that make sharp, colorful vision possible. By testing ...

If you think about it, you can’t be sure that what you see for the color red, for example, is what anyone else in the world actually sees. All you can be sure of is that we’ve all been trained to ...

UC Berkeley scientists created a new platform called “Oz” that directly controls up to 1,000 photoreceptors in the eye at once, providing new insight into the nature of human sight and vision loss. In ...

Thanks to their unique visual spectrum, bees prefer certain colors – so these are the flowers you'll want to plant in your ...