After decades of exhaustive study, scientists have concluded that human tetrachromacy is real. Some people have a truly superhuman range of color vision. In fact, there are two distinct types of ...

A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive, discovers David Robson. How do they do it? As Concetta Antico took her pupils to the park for an art lesson, she would ...

"It was a Rosetta Stone moment; I felt like we had broken the code." The recent correspondence from Kristopher Jake Patten, Ph.D., an affable and brilliant scientist studying the senses at Arizona ...

We sometimes think of colors as objective properties of objects, much like shape or volume. But research has found that we experience colors differently, depending on gender, national origin, ...