Tag Archives | color

COLOR FORCES

            Artist/photographer Fabian Oefner uses centripetal force, sound waves, iridescence and the unique properties of ferroliquids to show us what is usually unseen. These fascinating and beautiful images capture moments where science and art come together in electrifying ways.

THE RAINBOW AS SEEN BY YOUR DOG

                    Dogs have two cones (the photoreceptors that allow us to see color) rather than three like humans. The result is that what we humans see as reds and greens are invisible to dogs. Their two cone structure allows them to distinguish blues and yellows only. […]

COLOR MAPPING THE BRAIN

  Dr. Jeff Lichtman at Harvard University is trying to understand how brains work. To that end he is building a color-coded three-dimensional map from scans of paper-thin slices of a mouse brain. “You’ve got to see the wires. You just have to see them, and you have to see where they come from, where […]

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