In a new study, biologists show that the Harris's hawk has the best color vision of all animals investigated to date -- and in certain situations, even better than humans. The findings may help to ...

Living Colour, a documentary from The Nature of Things, delves into our vivid vision to uncover the secrets of colour. Here are a few things we learn in the film. Colour is an illusion ...

The real culprits of colour blindness are vision cells rather than unusual wiring in the eye and brain, recent research has shown. The discovery brings scientists a step closer to restoring full ...

Color vision may actually work like a colorized version of a black-and-white movie, a new study suggests. Cone cells, which sense red, green or blue light, detect white more often than colors ...

Colour vision may have evolved in primates to help them pick up on changes in blood and oxygen concentrations beneath the skin’s surface, giving access to emotional cues, a new analysis proposes.

(Medical Xpress)—A possible link between colour vision and the development of myopia - or near-sightedness - has been discovered by an international group, including a researcher from The ...

They found that fish deep-sea fish had expanded a certain gene called rhodopsin which gave them this remarkable vision. Photopigments in the cone cells found in the retina give vertebrates colour ...

Tracey finds out what it's like to be colour blind and why there may be some women with superhuman colour vision, who can see more colours than the rest of us. Series of five programmes.