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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...