Explore the surprising limits of human ocular perception and the range of sights we can and cannot detect.

Scientists at UC Berkeley have developed a new platform called "Oz" that can simultaneously control up to 1,000 ...

Researchers have uncovered the 3D structure of RBP3, a key protein in vision, revealing how it transports retinoids and fatty ...

Using an experimental technique called "Oz," researchers stimulated the human retina such that people saw a brand-new color.

Egyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems. The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat Wye, was one of the most significant. Sometimes seen as a distinctive ...

Here I apply evolutionary theory to understand why. I propose that the allele for human blue eyes, which arose just once, managed to spread from one individual to millions at an astonishing speed ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? The human eye does not actually see purple, as purple is not a color on the visual spectrum. Purple is a combination of wavelengths ...

These findings are important not only for improving the treatment of bacterial eye infections in dogs but also for their potential application to human medicine. "The findings of this study offer ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled ... itself to comparative studies that offer new insights into human and ape evolution, and into what underlies the functional differences ...

researchers used data from eye scans from the Dunedin Study's age 45 assessment. It is New Zealand's longest-running longitudinal study and is considered the world's most detailed study of human ...

Carol Miranda paid a surgeon in Los Angeles thousands of dollars last year to permanently change her eye color from dark brown to hazel. Miranda, a now 49-year-old sales associate, had dreamed ...