Using MRI scans, researchers found that participants’ patterns of brain activity were alike when looking at certain colors. But people can still experience those colors differently ...

Black Mirror, eat your heart out. Researchers have apparently just figured out how to make people see a color completely new to humanity. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley conducted ...

The average human eye can see as many as 10 million variations in color, according to some estimates, from purest gray to laser green. Now scientists say they’ve broken out of that familiar range and ...

A new study by biomedical engineers and neuroscientists shows that the brain's visual regions play an active role in making sense of information. When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, ...

When you close your eyes or sit in pitch darkness, what do you see? Most would instinctively say “black,” but your brain is telling you something else. That deep, indescribable hue isn’t true black—it ...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, claim to have found a new color. The caveat? You can’t see it. Not unless you have a laboratory fitted with a complex laser system that’s cued ...

From the first time I saw Blade Runner and heard Rutger Hauer’s Roy Batty describe “C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate,” I’ve wondered what it would be like to see beyond the ...

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