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 ...

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. This marks the first story ...

Using specialized filters, people with colorblindness may see more colors. — -- When 17-year-old Cole Williams was surprised by co-workers with the Christmas gift of Enchroma colorblindness ...

New research reveals signs of highly sensitive color vision in fish that live in the abyss beyond sunlight's reach An international team of researchers discovered a previously unknown visual system ...

Driving while color-blind is dangerous: Green stoplights look white and are often hard to distinguish from streetlights. So you guess or get help. A company called EnChroma now makes lenses that it ...

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Protanomaly is a common, X-linked abnormality of color vision. Like people with normal color vision, protanomalous observers are trichromatic, but their ability to discriminate colors in the red–green ...

While humans possess three kinds of color-sensitive cones, birds have four. This is an Inside Science story. Hummingbirds can see colors humans can only imagine, an ability that now sheds light on an ...