People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Human eyes perceive visible light as this array of colors. You may notice that some colors you can ...

The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they'd like an expert to answer. Utsav, age 17, wants to know where black falls on the colour spectrum. A colour scientist explains. People love ...

Thanks to a genetic manipulation, three color-blind mice recently gained the ability to see the world in the same hues as humans do. Mice and nonprimate mammals—much like color-blind people—see ...

It turns out that one of the colors we see in the world every single day is actually just a pigment of our imagination — er, sorry, figment of our imagination. Scientists say it's a sort of collective ...

Color is to the eye what birdsong is to the ear: a primal communion between ourselves and nature. The elemental power of color radiates from van Gogh’s shimmering wheat fields; in celestial ...

The color purple is, in a way, invented by our brains. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The world is awash with the color purple — ...