This week the first wave of research from scientific journals has begun to be published; Current Biology has posted a trio of papers by three different prominent competing color vision labs, each describing their initial studies of The Dress. So in celebration of the scientific enterprise and its surprise boost from the world of fashion: here is a summary of those first three studies for reading pleasure.
Art and neuroscience combine in creating fascinating examples of illusory motion
An approach called network coding could dramatically enhance the efficiency and reliability of communications networks. At its core is the strange notion that transmitting evidence about messages can be more useful than conveying the messages themselves
Cognitive scientist Mark Changizi does not bother with how the brain accomplishes a task, but rather why it performs the function in the first place.
Historic telescopes through the ages, from Galileo to the 21st century
The NuSTAR satellite will be the first space telescope capable of focusing high-energy x-rays into high-quality imagery--a feat that requires some incredibly intricate optics
A novel twist on the young field of optogenetics may provide a new way to study living human brains as well as offering innovative therapeutic uses.
A recent shift in U.S. military strategy and provocative actions by china threaten to ignite a new arms race in space. But would placing weapons in space be in anyone's national interest?
A gallery of images captured by light microscopy reveals the high art of the natural world
A European lab combines "light sheet" microscopy with an illumination process that subtracts the static caused by scattered photons to devise a way to clearly observe the inner workings of cells over a period of days
The proposed "Lowline" in New York City would transform an abandoned belowground trolley depot into a recreational public space complete with lush flora
The Pentagon ramps up efforts to field directed-energy beam weapons for land, air and sea
Researchers hope to detect faint radiation emanating from a new laboratory version of a black hole event horizon
![10 Telescopes That Changed Our View of the Universe [Slide Show]](/sciam/cache/file/7EC1378C-F927-4CCB-AF81A1ED09B0303F_small.jpg)
![A Look inside NASA's Next X-Ray Observatory [Slide Show]](/sciam/cache/file/F488D4DB-2866-4877-A9344D2ADD518551_small.jpg)
![New Microscope Enables Real-Time 3-D Movies of Developing Embryos [Slide Show]](/sciam/cache/file/5912FFA5-6AE2-48C3-9C8BAC136B780BCD_small.jpg)
![Tunnel Vision: Subterranean Park to Stay Sunny with Fiber-Optic Skylights [Slide Show]](/sciam/cache/file/3C5E909B-1119-4918-8BC829AE59A7B5EA_small.jpg)
![Ray Guns Near Crossroads to the Battlefield [Slide Show]](/sciam/cache/file/D00C7B6A-8441-4C58-9B5B169AD8BDAA86_small.jpg)
![Fiber-Optic Event Horizon Mimics Black Hole [Slideshow]](/sciam/cache/file/411D0BC7-3E36-4029-84D4BC8D3A632EDB_small.jpg)