New research offers insight into the complex workings of the retina and its role in processing color.

Researchers have discovered how humans can see millions of colors that dogs, cats, and other mammals can't.

An octopus that can change the size and color of skin patterns has inspired deception technology for use in the military, medicine, robotics, and more.

Understanding how the intricate spots and stripes, or Turing patterns, of many animals form can help scientists mimic those processes in the lab.

A new study of the genes of more than 600 types of carrot shows that three specific genes are required to give carrots an orange color.

When parasitic trematodes infect amphipods, the tiny crustaceans turn bright orange and lose their tendency to run for cover when exposed.

For one species of butterfly, a vision gene's jump onto a sex chromosome explains why males and females see color differently.

More and larger spots may help monarch butterflies survive their long migration. The spots may change airflow patterns around their wings.

Eating foods with lots of color could improve athletes' visual range, or how well a person can see a target clearly over distance.

Each rainbow is personal – the rainbow you see isn’t exactly the same rainbow the next person sees. It’s all in the eye of the beholder.