vision

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has today announced the approval of a new treatment for a form of hereditary blindness...

A small fly the size of a grain of rice could be the Top Gun of the fly world, with a remarkable ability to detect and intercept its prey mid-air...

Imagination is where ideas start: in the mind’s eye. The ability to think creatively – to dream the impossible – is behind the technological...

A gene for red colour vision that originated in the reptile lineage around 250m years ago has resulted in the bright red bird feathers and ‘painted’...

As you’re driving to work along a busy road, your eyes on the traffic lights ahead, hoping they won’t turn to red, you pass signs warning of roadworks...

A new online game is helping researchers explore whether high-contrast patterns during motion, such as stripes and zigzags, help to protect animals...

Experiments have identified a dedicated information highway that combines visual cues with body motion. This mechanism triggers responses to cues...

Research reveals plumages exhibit less than a third of possible colours birds can see.

Pioneering research shines new light on our understanding of the way we see the world. Optical fibres have now been found to exist in vertebrate eyes...