Poll: Many parents don’t protect their kids’ eye health

New poll results indicate ways parents can better protect their child's eye health from screens, sun, and other threats.

Beata Mostafavi-Michigan • futurity
July 18, 2022 ~7 min

How reindeer eyes transform in winter to give them twilight vision

There’s more to reindeer than meets the eye.

Robert A E Fosbury, Honorary professor, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL • conversation
July 1, 2022 ~7 min


Eye movements could be the missing link in our understanding of memory

New research verifies 50 year old theory about memory.

Mikael Johansson, Professor of Psychology, Lund University • conversation
June 21, 2022 ~6 min

When eyes meet, brains get to work

Research with monkeys shows that when eyes meet, neurons fire in multiple parts of the brain. It gets at how we figure out the meaning of a "social gaze."

Bill Hathaway-Yale • futurity
May 11, 2022 ~5 min

New eye drops can help aging people see better – an optometrist explains how Vuity treats presbyopia

As people age, their eyes lose the ability to focus on close objects. A new eye drop treatment called Vuity can improve vision without the need for glasses, contacts or surgery.

Robert Bittner, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences • conversation
May 5, 2022 ~8 min

How your eyes stay focused when you reach for stuff

New research digs into what's happening in the brain to keep your eyes focused on something you're reaching for, like a ground ball or grocery store item.

James Devitt-NYU • futurity
April 20, 2022 ~5 min

Fractal neuron growth could lead to bionic eyes

Growing rodent retinal neurons on a fractal-patterned electrode is a step toward a bionic eye, say researchers.

U. Oregon • futurity
April 11, 2022 ~6 min

Can a stem cell patch treat macular degeneration?

"If the goal is to treat blindness, we want to make sure that the retinal pigment epithelium cells... are still doing the job they're supposed to."

Sonia Fernandez-UCSB • futurity
March 17, 2022 ~9 min


Eye implant may restore some vision for people with macular degeneration

A thin pixelated chip implanted in the eye of people with macular degeneration may offer a way to restore functional vision, a new follow-up study shows.

Stanford • futurity
Feb. 10, 2022 ~9 min

Everything we see is a mash-up of the brain's last 15 seconds of visual information

The brain is basically a time machine that ensures what we see is stable and continuous

David Whitney, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley • conversation
Jan. 26, 2022 ~6 min

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