The research reveals how mutations may alter color vision or destabilize key eye proteins, Polina Isaikina told Newsweek.

The human eye functions like an exceptionally precise, high-end camera, one with a resolution of around 576 megapixels. What makes it intriguing is that although our eyes can focus on light at only ...

Perceiving something -- anything -- in your surroundings is to become aware of what your senses are detecting. Today, neuroscientists identify, for the first time, brain-cell circuitry in fruit flies ...

(CNN) — Many types of birds — such as hummingbirds, peacocks and parrots — are vividly colorful, but birds-of-paradise are especially flamboyant with hues of emerald, lemon, cobalt and ruby. Now, ...

The average human eye can see as many as 10 million variations in color, according to some estimates, from purest gray to laser green. Now scientists say they’ve broken out of that familiar range and ...

This figure illustrates the influence of LvBBX24 and LvbZIP44 on anthocyanin synthesis. Acting as individual transcription factors, LvBBX24 and LvbZIP44 can modulate anthocyanin accumulation by ...

A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Science, led by Professor Liu Xiaogang from the Department of Chemistry, has developed a 3D imaging sensor that has an ...