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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Ian Sample Science editor

Hue new? Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before

Man looking into laser machinery system
The researchers, including the vision scientist Austin Roorda (pictured), said the colour, olo, could only be experienced through laser manipulation of the retina. Photograph: Austin Roorda

After walking the Earth for a few hundred thousand years, humans might think they have seen it all. But not according to a team of scientists who claim to have experienced a colour no one has seen before.

The bold – and contested – assertion follows an experiment in which researchers in the US had laser pulses fired into their eyes. By stimulating individual cells in the retina, the laser pushed their perception beyond its natural limits, they say.

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