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 research paper was featured as the cover article in Science Robotics (Volume 9, Issue 90) in May 2024. The cover shows a fusion of an image composite of a robber fly’s eye on the left and an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

In a quiet but potentially transformative development for millions of Americans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...