The team behind the study created what might be the most accurate mathematical representation of photoreception ever.

A new optical illusion excellently illustrates just how finicky our eyes are when it comes to perceiving colors.

Visual representation of color spaces aligning with a mathematical apex. (LANL) Beauty may lie in the eye of the beholder, but color doesn't, researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Lightspark Design offers Color Game to improve our perception of colors. A color is presented for one second, and then you ...

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 ...

A creative girl surprised her colorblind boyfriend with EnChroma glasses to ‘prompose’ to him using a color perception test poster board. Aspiring vlogger Cameron Tucker, from Louisville, Kentucky, ...

The world might seem a little grayer than usual when we're down in the dumps and we often talk about 'feeling blue' -- new research suggests that the associations we make between emotion and color go ...