Animals are living color. Wasps buzz with painted warnings. Birds shimmer their iridescent desires. Fish hide from predators with body colors that dapple like light across a rippling pond. And all ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, have attempted to restore color vision to completely color-blind subjects using gene therapy. In their paper, "Seeing color following gene ...

Why do people see different colors when looking at the same scenery?Next to someone who says, "What a beautiful red," while ...

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 ...

Primate species with better color vision are not more likely to have red skin or fur coloration, as previously thought. It's long been assumed that primates' colorful skin and fur is linked to their ...

Researchers have harnessed the human eye's color-sensing strengths to give the eye the ability to distinguish between objects that differ in thickness by no more than a few nanometers, about the width ...

A sample of the photos used to assess the human eye’s response to natural scenes. The response of photoreceptors in the eye are helping researchers understand why our brain perceives color as a ...

Color vision may actually work like a colorized version of a black-and-white movie, a new study suggests. Cone cells, which sense red, green or blue light, detect white more often than colors, ...

Two male squirrel monkeys now see the world in a whole new way — in full color. Female squirrel monkeys can see in color, but male squirrel monkeys are normally red-green colorblind because they lack ...

The belief that dogs are colorblind, in the sense that they see the world only in black and white and shades of gray, is a common misconception. In a series of painstaking and extended measurements ...