Like most human traits, blue eyes are determined ... it’s an interplay between the amount of melanin and how it reflects ...

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

Do blue light glasses actually help with sleep or eye strain? We explore the science behind blue light exposure, circadian ...

Scientists have come up with scenarios through which the first eye-like structure, a light-sensitive pigmented spot on the skin, could have gone through changes and complexities to form the human ...

The eyes of a Cuban rock iguana, a gargoyle gecko, a blue-eyed black lemur, a southern ground hornbill, a red-eyed tree frog, a domestic goat, a western lowland gorilla, and a human This story ...

Cameras and eyes both detect light. Both cameras and the human eye use lenses to focus light ... red, green and blue, and all the millions of shades in between. The rods and cones send information ...

If you’ve ever suffered from dry, irritated eyes or struggled to fall asleep after a long day of staring at your computer, you may have been tempted to purchase a pair of blue-light-blocking ...

Whereas human eyes contain three types of colour-detecting cells, called cones, dogs have just two. Their cone cells are specialised for picking up yellow and blue-to-ultraviolet light. Each cone type ...

But with this increase in digital consumption comes the inevitable eye strain caused by the blue light emitted from our devices. The British Medical Journal describes this syndrome as “encompass ...

So, at the outset, nocturnal eyes gather more light than human eyes do. After the light passes through the pupil, it is focused by the lens onto the retina, which is connected to the brain by the ...

They are far more sensitive to light than cone cells, which is why you can sometimes see stars out of the corner of your eye at night, but when you look straight at them they seem to disappear. 5.