When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

XPANCEO founders on building the first interface designed for the body, not the screen — and why human–tech integration is ...

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are no longer concepts for something possible in the future. We’re on the ...

As far as evolution goes, that’s a blink of ... If a fly wanted to see with the same resolution as a human, its eye would need to be a meter wide. “Insects and crustaceans have become so ...

The backbone of the book consists of the 16 chapters on eye anatomy and physiology, but these are leavened by a variety of devices to inform us of the eye's evolution, development and intellectual ...

An insect eye looks so different from a human eye that one would assume intuitively that this must have arisen quite differently in evolution. There was a separate sort of construction, which was ...

Human eyes can’t decipher individual pixels from far away—this video shows why. A version of this story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Short for “picture ...

In 1994, Prof Dan-Eric Nilsson of Lund University in Sweden modelled the evolution of a simple layer of light receptors, incapable of seeing much more than light versus dark, to an eye capable of ...

If I use 1 arcminute instead, the scale factor is smaller, about 3438. So let’s convert that to inches to see how small a pixel the human eye can resolve at a distance of one foot: 12 inches / 3438 = ...