Many will recall the intense Feb. 2015 internet and media storm around the ‘is-it-black/blue’ or ‘is-it-white/gold’ Tumblr dress photo. It’s now become the focus of an international group of colour scientists, who have performed the first [we believe] laboratory-based study centering around the famous photo. The team, from the universities of Granada and Extremadura in […]
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Failure to detect color vision in a non-malingerer
If a person insists that they are color blind, how can you prove otherwise? This was the question facing Herbert Jägle, Bettina Sadowski, Jan Kremers, Hendrik P.N. Scholl, Beate Leo-Kottler, and Lindsay T. Sharpe, who set out to devise a method. Their 2003 study was carried out as a result of a court case, in […]
Goldfish no golder when fed tomatoes
“Color of aquarium fishes has an important role in preference of consumers. Insufficient coloration reduces economical value and not meet consumer demands both.” In other words, the ‘golder’ a goldfish is, the more valuable it might be. A team from the Fisheries Faculty at Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey (motto: “The university which brings illumination and […]