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

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 ...

A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed a mathematical framework for human color perception that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrodinger first sketched more than a century ago.

A recent study published in Perception suggests that playing outdoor sports improves peripheral color detection. The findings ...

Scientists have known for years that people categorize colors using the left side of their brains, but a new study reveals that before toddlers know the names of colors, they use the right side of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...