Vision

Your Eyes Are Wired Backwards: Here's Why

The human eye is optimized to have good color vision at day and high sensitivity at night.  But until recently it seemed as if the cells in the retina were wired the wrong way round, with light traveling through a mass of neurons before it reaches the lig ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2015 - 9:42am

Is Myopia The New Rickets? Are Schools To Blame?

Is Myopia the new Rickets? A new study compares the history of school myopia with the bone disease rickets. During the 17th century, rickets was common among children in England and then reached epidemic levels through northern Europe and North America. In ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2015 - 3:14pm

So Much For Branding: 1 Percent Of You Can Draw The Apple Logo

If you see a chicken, you know that's a chicken. If you see a cartoon of a chicken, you know that's a chicken. But can you draw a chicken from memory? Most people cannot draw anything that looks anything like a chicken, but is it because branding ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2015 - 8:40am

Samsung Face Recognition Improves When A Morphed Average Of Faces Is Used

Phones like the Samsung Galaxy can use facial recognition rather than typing in a security code. The problem is you will end up taking twice as long quite often, because the facial recognition will fail and you type in a PIN anyway. The system is good at ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2015 - 9:36am

Missing Eyes: Rare Mutation Cause Of Deformities

Researchers have solved a genetic mystery that has afflicted three unrelated families, and possibly others, for generations: The genetic basis for a variety of congenital eye malformations, including the complete absence of eyes.  ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2015 - 10:39am

Eye Injuries From Airsoft Guns Up Over 500 Percent

3,000 children were treated in U.S. emergency departments in 2012 for eye injuries related to paintball guns, airsoft guns, BB guns and pellet guns- but the big increase was in airsoft guns. Paintball injuries have remained minor (0.4 per million children ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2015 - 9:00am

Camera Autostabilization Feature May Soon Be Available For Your Eyes

Most cameras have an auto-stabilization feature to compensate for movement during- and our eyes do also. But in order for that imperceptible reflex that prevents our vision from blurring when we move to do its job, wirelike projections- axons- of specializ ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2015 - 12:23pm

Myopia Is Becoming More Common Across Europe

Myopia or short-sightedness is becoming more common across Europe, according to a new meta-analysis of findings from 15 studies by the European Eye Epidemiology Consortium which found that around a quarter of the European population is short-sighted but i ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2015 - 2:01am

#TheDress Wouldn't Have Happened If It Was Red

A few months ago, a snapshot of a lace-decorated dress puzzled social networks worldwide. Some people saw a blue and black dress while others saw the same dress as white and gold The reason behind the confusion, it is now known, is the photograph's ov ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2015 - 12:19pm

DRAM2: New Form Of Inherited Blindness Discovered

Scientists have discovered that mutations in the gene DRAM2 cause a new type of late-onset inherited blindness.  The article describes individuals from five families with a variety of DRAM2 mutations, all of which lead to loss of central vision beginning ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2015 - 3:51pm