Skip Navigation

Only Five People Have Seen This New Impossible Color

www.scientificamerican.com

Only Five People Have Seen This New Impossible Color

Researchers Discover New Color That’s Impossible to See without Lasering Your Retinas

There are only so many colors that the typical human eye can see; estimates put the number just below 10 million. But now, for the first time, scientists say they’ve broken out of that familiar spectrum and into a new world of color. In a paper published on Friday in Science Advances, researchers detail how they used a precise laser setup to stimulate the retinas of five participants, making them the first humans to see a color beyond our visual range: an impossibly saturated bluish green.

0 comments

No comments