Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom: how they work, why they've taken the form they have, and the ...

The compound eyes of insects can detect fast-moving objects in parallel and, in low-light conditions, enhance sensitivity by integrating signals over time to determine motion. Inspired by these ...

Concept of fast-zoom and high-resolution sparse CEC based on dual-end collaborative optimization. (a) Schematic diagram of imaging scene and the proposed sparse CEC based on liquid lenses. (b) ...

Electrical engineer Young Min Song remembers when his colleague at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea asked him why the eyes of the numerous stray cats around the institute ...

An artificial vision sensor inspired by the human pupil adapts automatically to light, maintaining clear perception from ...

3D reconstruction and ommatidia size measurements from SRμCT data of female D. simulans (left) and D. mauritiana (right). Facet areas of the ommatidia highlighted in the antero-ventral (green), ...

Most people are not going to be ready to make the off-grid plunge, but one TikToker shows how it can be a much more affordable way of life than you might realize. Off Grid Is Living (@offgridisliving) ...

Zeaxanthin, best known for eye health, has been found to boost the tumor-killing power of T cells. Researchers showed it ...