A team of scientists from Oregon State University and the University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, has learned that blue fluorescent light in the 430- to 480-nm...
The first human corneas have been 3D bioprinted by a research team at Newcastle University.
Newcastle University researchers Steve Swioklo and Che Connon...
Dark chocolate consumption improves the ability to see low- and high-contrast targets, possibly owing to increased blood flow, suggests a small new study...
Researchers have long suspected that color-changing animals like hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus) don’t just rely on their eyes to tune their appearance...
An international team of researchers has found a new photoreceptor type in the eyes of deep-sea pearlsides, which have an unusual visual system adapted...
According to new research published in the journal eLife, the dragonfly brain can perform visual tasks that were previously associated only with mammals.
Wiederman...
New research led by University College London, UK, shows that on average we are worse at spotting objects in crowded environments when they are above or...
A new study by researchers at the University of Adelaide and Lund University that appears online today in the journal Scientific Reports suggests that...
Frogs have the ability to see color even when it is so dark that humans are not able to see anything at all, according to a new study published in the...
In the Jan. 10 issue of the journal Stem Cell Reports, Dr. Michiko Mandai and colleagues at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan report...
According to a new study, what we see in the periphery, just outside the direct focus of the eye, may sometimes be a visual illusion.
Four examples of...
Astronauts on long-duration flights experience visual impairments due to volume changes in cerebrospinal fluid, the clear fluid that helps cushion the...
The first major study of visual pigment genes and lenses in snakes has found that the reptiles match their vision to their lifestyles.
The Montpellier...
According to an international team of scientists led by Dr. Nicholas Mundy at the University of Cambridge, a gene for red color vision that originated...
The eye-rolling behavior of mantis shrimp helps them see the world, says a team of biologists led by Nicholas Roberts of the University of Bristol, UK.
Mantis...
A new study published online in the journal Science suggests that both the sight and flight of the dusk-foraging hawkmoth (Manduca sexta) likely evolved...
A team of scientists from Australia has discovered that a species of blind water beetle called Limbodessus palmulaoides – living underground for millions...
According to a team of paleontologists from the United Kingdom and Japan led by Dr Haruyoshi Maeda of Kyushu University Museum, color vision evolved in...
