The claim that human vision can distinguish roughly 10 million colors has circulated through textbooks, display marketing, ...

Researchers at Rockefeller University reported in 2016 that human volunteers, after extended dark adaptation, could detect ...

Researchers have developed a light-sensing electronic component that adjusts to changing brightness much like the human eye, ...

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Scientists have devised a method to hijack the human eye, enabling it to see brand-new colors that lie beyond the scope of natural human vision. With this technique, the researchers enabled five ...

A peacock feather in sunlight shifts from blue to green to bronze as you turn it. Photograph it, and this shimmer collapses into one angle, one exposure, one compromise.

A new study suggests that never-seen-before stem cells in the human retina can restore vision in mice with a common eye disorder. But more work is needed to translate the treatment to people.