A photographer describes how your phone camera flattens and dulls the colors in photos – and how to regain an appreciation for the wide spectrum of colors.
Articles on Colors
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Uniquely colored flowers with big blooms might make for an aesthetically pleasing garden, but they can be unhelpful to pollinators. Careful consideration can help you plan a colorful and eco-friendly garden.
Mars isn’t a bright, fire-engine red, but the iron oxide in its rocks makes it appear redder than other planets, especially from afar.
An object’s color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds − for different viewers. But that doesn’t mean colors are subjective.
The holiday used to be a solemn feast day when you’d be far more likely to see the color blue.
Blue, green orange, brown − water comes in many colors, depending on what’s in it.
Even though emeralds and rubies are very different colors, they both have the same secret ingredient in their atomic structure.
Black doesn’t appear in the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. So why do we still see it?
The answer has to do with molecules.
The scariest thing about a black cat may be the way superstition and tradition shape people’s perceptions and prejudices about animals based solely on their color.
Kaleidoscopic color combinations can catch people’s attention before they even realize it, according to an eye-tracking study of real-world Facebook posts.
Seeing the world with a restricted color palate seems to tone down an emotion-based resistance to new foods.
The choices of author and illustrator Crockett Johnson during the printing process – as well as his civil rights advocacy – make it entirely within the realm of possibility.
Each rainbow is personal – the rainbow you see isn’t exactly the same rainbow the next person sees. It’s all in the eye of the beholder.
Neuroscientists tackling the age-old question of whether perceptions of color hold from one person to the next are coming up with some interesting answers.
Pristine and beautiful or black and dirty? As bushfires become more frequent and we look to Indigenous fire control practices, it is time to reconsider our attitudes to burnt earth.
The eerie San Francisco skyline evoked sci-fi movies for a reason. Filmmakers are increasingly using color grading to tinge their films with two hues, orange and teal, to unsettle viewers.
We want to be whitelisted and not blacklisted for jobs. White lies make stretching the truth okay, but you don’t want to receive a black mark on your record.
Your faithful friend’s view of the world is different than yours, but maybe not in the way you imagine.
A simple chemical reaction turns the red pigment of beets into a new, nontoxic blue dye.
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Senior Investigator at the National Eye Institute, Section on Perception, Cognition, and Action, National Institutes of Health
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Dean of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Management, University of Wisconsin-Stout Polytechnic
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