Pink noise sounds less harsh than white noise because humans don’t hear linearly. We hear in octaves, or the doubling of a frequency band, which means we perceive as much sonic space between 30 ...

Technical drawings of architectural or engineering designs always seem to consist of white images and text on blue paper. Why? It’s because of how those documents are made. The blueprinting ...

Sign In. Adam Rogers. Science. Feb 26, 2015 10:28 PM. The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress. ... "Most people will see the blue on the white background as blue," Conway says.

Some people see a white and gold dress in dark shadow. Some people see a blue and black dress washed out in bright light. Some people see one interpretation and then switch to the other.

In February 2015, the viral illusion had viewers in a hot debate over whether the dress was black and blue or white and gold. Here's the science.

The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt background checks on dozens of the president's top staffers and has ...

White and gold? Or blue and black? Dress pic spawns social media dust-up. — -- It's the dress that broke the Internet. An overexposed image of a $77 dress has spawned millions of social media ...

An object’s color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds − for different viewers. But that doesn’t mean colors are subjective.