The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have measured the resolution ceiling of human vision and found that, at typical ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The human eye contains a blind spot due to the presence of the optic disc—an area at the back of the eye where the optic nerve and retinal blood ...

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It seemed like a simple idea. Design a device that will make it possible for a human eye to remain alive and functional outside of the body. At least for a few hours. And then a few days. Subscribe to ...

The new color, "olo," is a hyper-saturated version of blue-green Getty Scientists conducting targeted retinal stimulation claim to have discovered a new color. In a study published in Science Advances ...

The ability to regenerate lost body parts has long captured human fascination. Many creatures out in nature can perform feats of repair that far surpass our own abilities. For example, salamanders can ...

Surgeons have performed the world's first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant – although it's far too soon to know if the man will ever see through his ...