Our ancestors had evolved the ability to see the full-color spectrum of visible light, except for UV around 30 million years ago; a new study has demonstrated. The scientists have finished a detailed ...

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 ...

If you're looking for an abstract splash of color to spruce up your desktop, the collections here should have something that catches your eye. Photo by Thelma1. Over at the design blog Hongkiat, they ...

(Credit: Delpixel/Shutterstock) Thanks to the architecture in our eyes, we see but a small subset of the hues that make up the visible spectrum. We only have three kinds of cones, or color-sensitive ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Color perception is an ancient and active philosophical problem. It’s an instance of the wider category of sensory perception, but since the color spectrum fits on a single line (unlike, say, touch ...

Is there a sufficiently reliable way to get an acceptable measure of the actual colour temperature of the the light generated by an LED bulb, using generic hardware and/or software? Maybe there's an ...

Anyone who's ever stared in desperation at a paint colour chart will know that telling shades apart is not always the easiest task. Due to our biological differences, some people seem to have no ...

Faced with a glorious spectrum of colour, songbirds, just like humans, look for the big picture. They can lump nearby hues in the colour spectrum into categories, such as shades that are generally red ...

Just when you thought every colour to exist had been found, you were wrong. Although the new shade might look familiar, it’s actually completely unique. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT While ...