Blue, green, amber: Someone’s eye color immediately attracts our attention. But there’s something unusual about human eyes: ...
From the first time I saw Blade Runner and heard Rutger Hauer’s Roy Batty describe “C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate,” I’ve wondered what it would be like to see beyond the ...
Scientists have devised a method to hijack the human eye, enabling it to see brand-new colors that lie beyond the scope of natural human vision. With this technique, the researchers enabled five ...
For most of human history, green eyes didn’t exist. Understanding why they do now means rethinking what we know about evolution itself.