An illustration showing how bees visually perceive the environment. Imagine for a moment you could perceive the world like a bee. Bees have the fastest color vision in the animal world, about five ...

High-tech camera system makes it possible for humans to see colors in the way animals do, adding vivid new perspective to the ...

Nature’s most dazzling colors can be strangely rare. Walk through a park or forest and you see greens, yellows and reds that feel soft to the eye. Most of those tones are matte. Only now and then do ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter of survival—and new research shows how flowers do it is more intriguing than ...