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 ...

Red-green is the most common type of of hereditary color-blindness in people, according to the National Eye Institute (NEI) in Bethesda, Maryland. As many as 8 percent of men and .5 percent of ...

The Christmas season is inextricably connected to this color combination—but why? Look around the internet for why red and green are classic Christmas colors and one suspect immediately pops up ...

Five people have witnessed an intense green-blue colour that has never been seen by humans before, thanks to a device that might one day enable those with a type of colour blindness to experience ...

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 ...

“Color has always served as a map,” she says. “Culturally, we want that as well.” This biological explanation may also play a role in why green and red helped make Christmas one of the ...

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 ...