The journal Advanced Materials recently published a study introducing a new method for monitoring molecular processes deep ...

During the age of dinosaurs, small predators with unexpectedly advanced eyes hunted in the darkness roughly 100 million years ...

Researchers reconstruct the tiny eye of Megaphragma viggianii in 3D, revealing adaptations and possible technological ...

Nocturnal geckos have superb vision in dim light - their eyes are 350 times more sensitive to colour ... these horsefly males have two different sized ommatidia (the photoreceptor units that form ...

Living insects and crustaceans have compound eyes. In 2011, thanks to some 514-million-year-old fossils from South Australia ... There's simply no way, with an eye of this size and so many lenses, ...

The compound eyes of insects can detect fast-moving objects ... To address this issue, the research team adopted an approach similar to insect vision, utilizing multiple optical channels and ...

Their enhanced visual field and ability to detect movement help insects avoid predators and catch their prey. These sections come from an area on the top of the dragonfly’s eye called the functional ...

A challenge in building digital cameras with the hemispherical, compound apposition layouts of arthropod eyes is that essential design requirements cannot be met with existing planar sensor ...

The researchers' new method, called chemical tomography, provides insights into tissue function by analyzing volatile organic compounds (VOCs). These molecules are present in exhaled breath, saliva, ...

If animals have eyes to let light in, that means they have some form of vision, but that doesn’t ... We call this kind of eye a compound eye, and because all the little lenses point in different ...

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, greys and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that tiny changes in the timing of the expression of a single gene can ...