As a species, we humans are quite taken with our intelligence and supposedly expanded awareness compared to other living creatures. In reality, we don’t see nearly as much. Hummingbirds, for instance, ...

Is it correct to say there are "colors that we don't have names for", as the butterfly square puts it, or is that just hyperbole? Or are they just ranges of known 'colors', just unseen (and thus ...

After decades of exhaustive study, scientists have concluded that human tetrachromacy is real. Some people have a truly superhuman range of color vision. In fact, there are two distinct types of ...