Can You See What I See?

Science in the United States took some big hits this year. The Trump Administration disrupted federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits. Administration officials say those changes were a step towards reinvigorating federal agencies like the National Institutes of Healt ...  عرض المزيد

Gen Z and younger millennials are generally the most climate literate generations. As an age cohort that started learning about climate change in school, they're worried about how to plan for their future jobs, houses and, yes, kids. With climate-related disasters and global warm ...  عرض المزيد

CrowdScience listener Gregory wants to know what affects the way we see the colours of the world. He was looking at a blue summer sky with a friend and they got to wondering whether they both see the same colour blue. So what does influence our vision of the colours that surround ...  عرض المزيد

There’s no denying that human imagination is a powerful thing. It has led us to create incredible works of art, literature that transports its readers to other realms, technology that revolutionizes the way we communicate and travel, music and film that makes us laugh, cry, an ...

This episode I describe how we see, meaning how our eyes focus, convert light information into electricity the rest of the brain can understand and how our brain creates the incredible thing we experience as “sight”. I also describe how we can train and support our visual system ...  عرض المزيد

Contrairement à une idée répandue, les chiens ne perçoivent pas seulement des nuances de gris ; ils sont capables de discerner certaines couleurs. Leur perception diffère considérablement de la nôtre. Alors que les humains peuvent voir toute la gamme des couleurs, nos amis à quat ...  عرض المزيد