What colour is the dress? Science may have the answer

Blue and black or white and gold: Twitter descends into slanging match over the colour of a dress

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Tempers frayed across social media after a photograph of a dress went viral (see the full picture below), polarising people into two camps: those who see it as white and gold versus those who see it as blue and black.

What is going on?

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