Tag: Color

  • Science & Tech

    Why you wear what you wear

    In a new study, researchers uncover personality traits behind people’s preferences when making fashion decisions.

    Illustration of mannequins with clothes.
  • Science & Tech

    Making sense of how the blind ‘see’ color

    A new Harvard study suggests that although the congenitally blind experience abstract visual phenomena such as rainbows and color differently, they still share with the sighted a common understanding of them.

    Conceptual illustration of MRI scans.
  • Science & Tech

    Rapid evolution, illustrated

    A study in which mice were released into outdoor enclosures to track how light- and dark-colored specimens survived confirms that mice survive better in similarly colored habitats, providing insights into evolution.

  • Health

    Clues to camouflage

    Chromatic aberration may explain how cephalopods can demonstrate such remarkable camouflage abilities despite being able to see only in black and white.

  • Science & Tech

    Crafting ultrathin color coatings

    In Harvard’s high-tech cleanroom, applied physicists produce vivid optical effects — on paper.

  • Arts & Culture

    Light, bright, and modern

    The strikingly modernist Carpenter Center, which turned 50 this year, was Le Corbusier’s only building in North America and was the last major project of his life. This video explores the building’s color palette.

  • Campus & Community

    Pickles, prisms, and scientists

    Celebrating its 11th year of public engagement, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ (SEAS) Holiday Lecture Series dazzled and delighted audiences on Dec. 8 with a show guaranteed to kindle curiosity about the natural world.

  • Science & Tech

    Applied physics as art

    Harvard researchers spray-paint ultrathin coatings that change color with only a few atoms’ difference in thickness.

  • Science & Tech

    Soft robots go for color, camouflage

    Researchers have developed a system — inspired by nature — that allows soft robots to either camouflage themselves against a background, or to make bold color displays. Such a “dynamic coloration” system could one day have a host of uses, ranging from helping doctors plan complex surgeries to acting as a visual marker to help…

  • Campus & Community

    Embracing spring

    Harvard undergraduates gleefully covered one another in bright colors on in observance of Holi, the Hindu celebration of spring.