Total solar eclipses, while stunning, can damage your eyes if viewed without the right protection

Now’s the time to get your hands on a pair of eclipse glasses in preparation for April’s display of celestial wonder.

Geoffrey Bradford, Professor of Pediatrics and Ophthalmology, West Virginia University • conversation
March 12, 2024 • ~6 min

Flies evade your swatting thanks to sophisticated vision and neural shortcuts

Why is it so difficult to swat a fly? A team of insect experts explains how a fly’s sophisticated vision allows it to quickly react to visual cues.

Ravindra Palavalli-Nettimi, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Florida International University • conversation
Aug. 17, 2022 • ~8 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

Why do scientists care about worms?

'Worm' is really a catchall term for a huge variety of animals with different characteristics that span the tree of life. They hold clues about our own origins as well as hints about human health.

Helen Robertson, Postdoctoral Scholar of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago • conversation
Dec. 10, 2020 • ~7 min

Does coronavirus linger in the body? What we know about how viruses in general hang on in the brain and testicles

Some viruses can hide out in the body and reemerge at later times. Which viruses do this, and can the new coronavirus do this too?

William Petri, Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia • conversation
July 31, 2020 • ~9 min

Gene therapy and CRISPR strategies for curing blindness (Yes, you read that right)

Strategies to cure various types of blindness are looking more plausible after a series of recent breakthroughs using gene editing and gene therapy.

Hemant Khanna, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Massachusetts Medical School • conversation
June 25, 2020 • ~9 min

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