Visual representation of color spaces aligning with a mathematical apex. (LANL) Beauty may lie in the eye of the beholder, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another entry for the ever-expanding category of "the brain is a very strange place" posts. A paper in PNAS suggests that what we call a color may influence how we perceive it. The image below shows a ...

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, ...

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 ...