The S-cones make up only 8–12 percent of all cones in the retina and are almost completely absent in the absolute center of the fovea.” Taken all together, this means some colors are easily ...

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

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 ...

Have you ever argued with someone over the color of an object? If you remember the viral debate about what color a certain dress was, it turns out, there's actual science behind why everyone was right ...

Technology used by UC Berkeley researchers to see a new color may allow for development of new ways to see and research eye diseases. The machine, dubbed Oz, was previously used to shoot lasers into ...

Colour perception, an essential aspect of human vision, enables us to interpret and interact with our environment reliably despite fluctuating illumination. At the core of this capability is colour ...

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

Our brain efficiently processes sensory input by merging data from multiple senses, creating associations like warmer temperatures with warmer colors or flavors with specific colors. A study in ...

Physicists and vision scientists are lining up behind a provocative claim: the rich color we call purple is not a property of light at all, but a story the brain tells itself. Light in the real world ...