Tag: #color

2025-26, Natural World

Seeing the Invisible: How Viewing Conditions Shape the Colors Birds Display

By Ilian Medarov, Class of 2028 Birds are some of the most colorful members of the animal kingdom, flaunting their colors to attract mates, communicate, and avoid predators. However, scientists are still figuring out how the different environments they evolved in brought about these colors over time. Researchers Jamie Dunning, Catherine Sheard, and John A. Endler decided to investigate this in a 2025 study that … Continue reading Seeing the Invisible: How Viewing Conditions Shape the Colors Birds Display

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2025-26, General Psychology

The Sound of Color: How Timbre Influences Our Color Association

By Samantha Libbey, Class of 2027 Figure 1: Woman listening to music. Have you ever described a song as “bright”, or the sound of a violin as “warm”? These are words typically associated with color; however, in some cases they are used to describe sound. But what do these words and their usage reveal about the connection between color and sound? Researchers from  the Herberger … Continue reading The Sound of Color: How Timbre Influences Our Color Association

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2025-26, Natural World

Climate Changes the Color of Flowers, but not for Pollinators

By Anthony Barone, Class of 2029 Figure 1.  Purple Mistress (Mordicandia arvensis) during the spring flowering season. In nature, the pigment of flower petals changes as a response to heat, increasing the concentration of molecules that absorb more harmful radiation. This change could result in a difference in visibility from a human’s perspective, but what about pollinators? Eduardo Narbona and his team at the University … Continue reading Climate Changes the Color of Flowers, but not for Pollinators

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2025-26, Physics and Technology

Chromotherapy Meets Technology: Integrating Light-Based Art with Virtual Reality

By Maegan Diep, Class of 2029 Figure 1.  An image of the early cosmos, an example of what researchers may have based their virtual reality artworks on.  Since the COVID-19 pandemic, anxiety disorders have become increasingly prevalent, affecting 4% of the world’s population and roughly 50% of the Taiwanese population. Anxiety not only impacts mental health, but also can have effects on the cardiovascular and … Continue reading Chromotherapy Meets Technology: Integrating Light-Based Art with Virtual Reality

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