Physicists and vision scientists are lining up behind a provocative claim: the rich color we call purple is not a property of light at all, but a story the brain tells itself. Light in the real world ...

For decades, people have speculated about Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, questioning their true hue: Are they blue velvet, deep purple or vivid violet? Such is the legend surrounding Taylor's ...

For decades, people have wondered about the true color of acting legend Elizabeth Taylor's eyes: Were they blue velvet, dark denim, deep purple or vivid violet? Such is the legend surrounding the ...

A biomedical optics engineer discovered a visual illusion where purple dots appear bluer in peripheral vision. This ...