Secrets of color vision could hold clues to treating nearsightedness

It uses the light around us to create spectacular images that help us navigate the world as visual creatures. Scientists have ...
YourTango

There’s One Color That Doesn’t Exist — Our Brains Made It Up, According To Scientists

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 ...
The Conversation

Where does black fall on the color spectrum? A color scientist explains

Michael Murdoch is a member and former board member of the Inter-Society Color Council, part of the Color Literacy Project. People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, ...
EurekAlert!

Omnidirectional color wavelength tuning of stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers

a) Illustration of the omnidirectional wavelength-tunable color device featuring a mechanochromic chiral liquid crystal elastomer (CLCE) and an electrically deformable dielectric elastomer actuator ...
Newsweek

Single Metalens Focuses Entire Light Spectrum Into One Point for First Time—Tech Could Revolutionize Virtual Reality

Scientists have used a new lens to focus all the colors of the rainbow into one point. This is the first time a single lens has been used to focus the entire spectrum of light, including white light.
Penn Live

This color is ‘a pigment of your imagination’: Here’s why

Colors are one of the first things people learn about in school. Well, you might have to start re-learning. At least, when it comes to one color people think is on the spectrum. Popular Mechanics ...
EDN

Accurately Plot Colors from Power Spectrum Data

Accurate color mixing of light from LEDs requires precise knowledge of the primary colors used for mixing. While some manufacturers provide bin data for color LEDs, many do not. What is almost always ...