Published on: 2025-08-12 12:19:02
Image by Getty / Futurism Developments The human eye can see millions of colors — but no eyes have ever before beheld "olo." Only five people on the planet have witnessed this brand new color, thanks to the efforts of a team of researchers in California. And to earn this exclusive privilege, they had to fire laser pulses into their eyeballs. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Science Advances, the pulses stimulated specific cells in the participants' retinas without activatin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-19 16:00:42
Black Mirror, eat your heart out. Researchers have apparently just figured out how to make people see a color completely new to humanity. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley conducted the research, published Friday in Science Advances. Using a technique called Oz, the research team induced human volunteers into seeing a color beyond the “natural human gamut.” Oz could allow scientists to conduct experiments previously not possible before, the authors say, and the lessons we lea
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