It wasn’t long before I was diagnosed with red and green colour blindness. At 16, I toyed with joining the army. I was worried the condition would affect my options, and recall the careers ...

It's hard to imagine a time when red and green weren't synonymous with Christmas, but they haven't always been the holiday's go-to colors. Arielle Eckstut, co-author of Secret Language of Color ...

But there’s little consensus about the colour: images of the virus come in red, orange, blue, yellow, steely or soft green, white with red spikes, red with blue spikes and many colours in between.

The most common form of colour blindness makes it difficult for those with the condition to distinguish between red and green. But scientists have found that it also helps these people to discern ...

Daniel Bor, a red-green colour blind neuroscientist at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, experimented with the specs after Changizi asked for testers on Twitter. “They made my daughter ...

Unlike most mammals, who are red-green colour blind, we and other primates developed a third cone cell. This additional photoreceptor enabled our ancestors to spot ripe red and yellow fruits ...

New research sheds light on how primates, including man, evolved the ability to see red and green. Scientists believe this more advanced form of colour vision emerged because it helped our ancestors ...