You may well have heard of the ‘true cyan’ optical illusion said to induce a colour people have “never seen before” (although the actual science debunks that claim), but now, Washington and California ...

An astonishing discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope may rewrite our understanding of the Universe’s early years. A ...

Researchers in optics and brain and cognitive science are investigating whether neurons can transmit light in a manner ...

You’ve probably seen every color in the rainbow—until now. Scientists say they’ve unlocked a hue the human eye was never ...

The color has been has been described as 'dazzling' by one of the select few who were lucky enough to witness it ...

A device has enabled people to see a new a shade of blue-green, which they say is more intense than any experienced before ...

By stimulating thousands of individual cone cells, researchers made volunteers see a blue-green color of "unprecedented ...

It turns out that one of the colors we see in the world every single day is actually just a pigment of our imagination — er, sorry, figment of our imagination. Scientists say it's a sort of collective ...

Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it ...

It’s so amazing– the technology that’s going on here.” The newly described method and prototype machine is called the Oz ...

Using an experimental technique called "Oz," researchers stimulated the human retina such that people saw a brand-new color.

Five people have been able to perceive a colour never before seen by human eyes, after researchers used lasers and tracking ...