The team behind the study created what might be the most accurate mathematical representation of photoreception ever.

The world around you is colorful, but it wouldn't seem so bright without your brain. In fact, it is your brain that processes the color information from the color-sensitive sensors, or photoreceptors, ...

A century after Erwin Schrödinger sketched out a bold vision for how we perceive color, scientists have finally filled in the missing pieces. A Los Alamos team used advanced geometry to show that hue, ...

We did a little science experiment at dinner the other night. My son Matthew looked at a glass in front of him then reached out to touch it with his forefinger. Gently and precisely, he made contact ...

When we look for something moving in the sky, our expectation would be very different if the object is a bird flying past or a baseball coming straight at us. UC Davis scientists in a new study looked ...

Here’s what compound eyes really do — and why flies see you in slow motion. A few centuries ago, scientists believed insects saw thousands of tiny, repeated images — like a kaleidoscope of candle ...

Hear from the wildlife biologist and presenter Lizzie Daly about how she gets ready to tag jaguars in the wetlands of South America. A psychologist explains the cognitive mechanisms underlying how ...