LOOK: Scientists discover never before seen colour
A new colour just dropped!
Science never ceases to amaze.
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From researchers and technicians to physicists and analysts, the world would be a much scarier and less interesting place without them.
This discovery is an example of that.
While this is more of a "fun" discovery than a serious one, it's still exciting.
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A team of scientists claims to have discovered a new colour.
It is even more fascinating that no human has ever seen this colour before, so scientists have only come across it now.
As part of the experiment that revealed this colour, researchers in the US had laser pulses fired into their eyes.
Participants claimed to see a blue-green colour when specific cells in the retina were stimulated.
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Scientists have called it "olo", and the findings have been published in the Science Advances journal.
Professor Ren Ng from the University of California, the study's co-author, called it "remarkable".
The scientists have confirmed that the colour below is the closest colour to olo, which is much more saturated.
They also believe that the results could potentially contribute to research into colour blindness.
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Ng was one of five people who took part in the experiment. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that olo was more saturated than any colour seen in the real world.
Let's say you go around your whole life and you see only pink, baby pink, a pastel pink. And then one day you go to the office and someone's wearing a shirt, and it's the most intense baby pink you've ever seen, and they say it's a new colour and we call it red.
The experiment consisted of participants looking into a device called "Oz", which consists of lasers, optical devices, and mirrors.
The researchers had to stare into the device while a laser beam flashed into one of their pupils.
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The retina is a light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the eye, which includes cone cells responsible for perceiving colour.
The three types of cone cells, S, L and M, are each sensitive to different wavelengths of blue, green and red.
According to the research paper, "in normal vision, any light that stimulates an M cone cell must also stimulate its neighbouring L and/or S cones, because its function overlaps with them".
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However, the laser only stimulated the M cones, "which in principle would send a colour signal to the brain that never occurs in natural vision".
This indicates that the colour olo can not be seen in the real world with the naked eye but only with specific stimulation.
The researchers verified the colour during the experiment by adjusting a controllable colour dial until it matched olo.
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