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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In many areas, the environment fluctuates greatly depending on the season, and animals living in those areas must adapt to the changing environment. A research group has found that color perception of ...

How we interact with objects in the world often depends on what colors we perceive them to have, and on how those perceived colors accord with what we know to be the normal or 'canonical' colors of ...

Join us for the opening of "Coloring Perception," featuring works by Alexis Arnold and Cécilia Lusven. Pattern, repetition, material, and color are central elements to both artists' works. Arnold uses ...

First there was “the dress,” then there was the sneakers, now there’s a debate over the color blue. If you’ve ever argued with a friend over whether something is blue or green, you’re not alone. A new ...

Perceiving something – anything – in your surroundings is to become aware of what your senses are detecting. Today, Columbia University neuroscientists identify, for the first time, brain-cell ...