Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What color is a tree, or the sky, or a sunset? At first glance, the answers seem obvious. But it turns out there is plenty of ...

The colors we see may get increasingly dull as we get older, scientists have found. The pupils of younger people's eyes react differently to bright colors than those of older folk, a new paper in the ...

This video lets you peek inside the human brain, highlighting the neuronal fibers that enable communication across the brain. This communication is vital to all brain functions, including learning, ...

From early childhood, we’ve been taught to recognize the colors of the rainbow—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet—using the iconic acronym ROYGBIV. We see them in nature, on color ...

On the computer screens, the mouse brain is shown from several angles. Then you click, and a small area of the brain is ...

NEW YORK, NY — Perceiving something – anything – in your surroundings is to become aware of what your senses are detecting. Today, Columbia University neuroscientists identify, for the first time, ...