We live in a world ablaze with colour. Rainbows and rainforests, oceans and humanity, Earth is the most colourful place we know of. But the colours we see are far more complex and fascinating than ...

The field of colour science encompasses the rigorous measurement, reproduction, and perception of colour, integrating principles from physics, psychology, and engineering. Central to this discipline ...

With 12 colour receptors, the mantis shrimp seems visually unmatched. But studies reveal that their visual system likely isn’t as rich as we previously believed.

Meet Andy Sachs. A million girls would kill to have her job. She's not one of them.

Physicists and vision scientists are lining up behind a provocative claim: the rich color we call purple is not a property of light at all, but a story the brain tells itself. Light in the real world ...