To be clear, the dress is blue, with black stripes.But it didn't always look that way to me. In fact, when I first saw an image of the dress on Thursday night, it seemed obviously white-and-gold ...

Blame your brain (and not your eyes) for the way you see the dress. — -- Everybody, chill. There's a scientific explanation for why #TheDress looks black and blue to some people and white and ...

The entire internet is confused about this dress. Do you see it as white ... So imagine a yellow-y light on a white object - the brain understands that the yellow light is influencing the colour ...

For example, if your brain assumes the lighting on the dress is very dim, it will assume the dress itself is highly reflective, or white and gold, Williams said. But if your brain assumes the ...

Say you see the dress as white and gold — like me — but you know that somebody else, Taylor Swift, for example, perceives it as blue and black. At that moment, the brain is doing something rem ...

After placing volunteers in an MRI scanner and asking them to look at the image they noticed subtle changes in how the brain was functioning. People who saw the dress as white and gold had extra ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Update: An eyewitness who saw the dress speaks The same kind of system is found in cameras, and is called white balance. That allows the camera to do the same thing the brain does – deciding ...

Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation. (And yes, it's blue.) The fact that a single image could polarize the entire ...

What colors are in this dress? That simple question has divided people into two irrationally passionate camps: white and gold and blue and black. From this day on, the world will be divided into ...

If you think the dress is in shadow, your brain may remove the blue cast and perceive the dress as being white and gold. If the photograph showed more of the room, or if skin tones were visible ...