This viral optical illusion shows completely different colours to different people—blue and grey for some, green and yellow for others. Scientists say the brain, not the eyes, decides what we see ...

There are plenty of rules and restrictions related to cars and their safety features. In fact, some of these restrictions ...

Years of research and development work have made compact, high-performance lasers ubiquitous for the near-infrared wavelengths used in telecommunications. However, lasers with an output in the visible ...

People who speak a language that has multiple words for different shades of colour perceive the shades more quickly. Bees have a phenomenal ability to perceive different shades of colour, and their ...

A research team has shown how different colors of light could affect our ability to sleep. At the same time they have established that the light-sensitive pigment melanopsin is necessary for the ...

Granite colors range the spectrum from white to black to pink, but what makes a single rock type so variable? Here we will discover what makes each granite a different color, what that tells us about ...

James Rawlings does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Wayne Davies is supported by Future Fellowship and Discovery Project grants awarded by the Australian Research Council (FT110100176 and DP140102117). Shaun Collin receives funding from the Australian ...

If you could make one wish — and have it come true — what would it be? In today’s episode, we’ll hear a story about three wishes... three sisters... and one magical horse. Our story is called “The ...