Animals are living color. Wasps buzz with painted warnings. Birds shimmer their iridescent desires. Fish hide from predators with body colors that dapple like light across a rippling pond. And all ...

The FAA will mandate new computer-based color vision tests for pilots starting January 1, 2025, replacing the traditional Ishihara test to improve safety and screen for a wider range of deficiencies.

The human eye is capable of so many biological wonders, it’s easy to lose track. To note just a few: Ciliary muscles cause your eyes to autofocus almost instantaneously, some 240 million rods help the ...

Color vision may actually work like a colorized version of a black-and-white movie, a new study suggests. Cone cells, which sense red, green or blue light, detect white more often than colors, ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, have attempted to restore color vision to completely color-blind subjects using gene therapy. In their paper, "Seeing color following gene ...

Primate species with better color vision are not more likely to have red skin or fur coloration, as previously thought. It's long been assumed that primates' colorful skin and fur is linked to their ...