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US scientists solve Schrödinger’s 100-year-old theory of human color perception
Researchers in the US have finally completed the missing mathematical pieces of theoretical physicist ...
A century after Erwin Schrödinger sketched out a bold vision for how we perceive color, scientists have finally filled in the missing pieces. A Los Alamos team used advanced geometry to show that hue, ...
People's perception of color changes depending on the season, new research suggests. In particular, people see yellow differently on a grey day in the middle of winter, compared with how they see it ...
This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...
Do things look duller? As we age, the way we see the world can change – literally Tell us: share your experiences of traveling with friends Every now and then, a bit of nostalgia bait drifts across my ...
First-ever images of living human retinas have yielded a surprise about how we perceive our world. Researchers at the University of Rochester have found that the number of color-sensitive cones in the ...
On a flight from New York City to Berlin, the route map might look a little curious: the shortest path between these two cities is surely a straight line, and yet the flight path curves distinctly, ...
Have you ever argued with someone over the color of an object? If you remember the viral debate about what color a certain dress was, it turns out, there's actual science behind why everyone was right ...
A project to improve data visualization ended up overturning a century-old model of color space that underpins industry standards for color everywhere from digital displays to paint. The opportunity ...
In the 1950s, the DuPont chemical company, based in Delaware, came out with a product that might have made the biggest impact on how you live in your home: acrylic paint, in every color of the rainbow ...
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