Every time the human eye darts from one point to another, the retinal image smears across the visual field. These rapid jumps ...

Discover how Allvar Gullstrand's Nobel-winning research transformed our understanding of the human eye and vision science.

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Fabrication of nanoscale light-sensitive materials, known as quantum dots, created a device that reacts to light faster than the human eye. It could revolutionize autonomous vehicles. WASHINGTON, July ...

Bilal Haider receives funding from NIH and the Simons Foundation. Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped ...

Researchers use single-cell analysis to show how transplanted neural stem cells interact with the retina to preserve vision in retinitis pigmentosa.

A utonomous vehicles face many hazards as they set out on the road. Cyclists swerve in and out of traffic, distracted pedestrians amble into the road, human drivers change lanes without indicating.