As a result, purple and magenta are known as "nonspectral" colors, because they don't really exist as actual electromagnetic ...

The findings come from a study of something called categorical perception, a mental hack in which the brain subdivides ... over a solid colored disc, they got nothing. Picking a particular disc before ...

our state bird likes to eat safflower or sunflower seeds, but these fruits entice it during spring. The bird’s bright color is stunning against a backdrop of winter snow or summer greenery.

Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, suggesting it had more advanced cognitive capabilities than the earliest ...

It lived 150 million years ago, but researchers don’t know much about how the bird brain evolved from then to now. Navaornis skeleton. Credit: Stephanie Abramowicz. IRA FLATOW: Archaeopteryx is the ...

The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of ...