Viruses exist in a realm where there is no light and colour has no meaning. In their COVID-19 depictions, designers, illustrators and communicators make some highly creative and evocative decisions.
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Articles on Colours
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Green is lethal: the colour of radioluminescent paint, arsenic and chlorine gas. It is also the colour of crime fiction paperbacks.
When we look at art we may not all see the same thing. It all depends on what happens in our brains.
Scientists have discovered how the wise old barn owl is so good at catching rodents.
Researchers can more easily compare heated rocks from different studies and areas.
Some colour blind people only have two kinds of cone cell in their eye. Others have three kinds, but the cones do not pick up the same light waves as the cone cells in most people’s eyes do.
What colours we see depends not just on how things are in the world around us, but also on what happens in our eyes and our brains.
When crustaceans are cooked, some chemicals in their shells react with heat and change colour.
How our life experiences change the way we perceive colours.
Claude Monet painted The Magpie in winter 1868, turning his interest in colour on the blank canvass of snow.
Turkish painter Esref Armagan uses colour and perspective that he has never seen.
From Superman to Jurassic Park, green screen technology is what makes the jaw-dropping effects you see in blockbuster movies possible. But how does it work?
An unlikely combination of artists, medieval historians, philosophers and scientists have converged to create an exhibition of glass artworks.
It has long been known that colour and emotion are linked – so could colour could be used as a language to express how we feel?
Colour can have surprising effects on us, which we are only now beginning to understand.
The brain processes colour in more ways that just creating visual images – here’s how.
People across the globe all see millions of distinct colors. But the terms we use to describe them vary across cultures. New cognitive science research suggests it’s about what we want to communicate.
Georgina, age 5, wants to know why rainbows are round.
As India celebrates its independence, the flag is on full display, but few people know about the complex origins of this ubiquitous national symbol.
Indian girls grow up in an environment where they are constantly reminded that fair is beautiful.
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Associate Professor - Perception, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
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Professor in High Medieval History, Durham University
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Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
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Associate professor, O.P. Jindal Global University
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Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Federation University Australia
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Researcher and analyst, Monash University
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Professor of Biology, Lund University
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Associate Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Senior Researcher, Consumer Behavior, Dept of Health Sciences and Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Associate Professor of Evolutionary Ecology, Monash University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Biology, Université de Lausanne
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Professeur, Chercheur Ornitologue, Université de Lausanne
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Research Fellow in Energy and Advanced Manufacturing, University of South Australia
