Human eye gives researchers visionary design for new, more natural lens technology Date: November 13, 2012 Source: Optical Society of America Summary: Drawing heavily upon nature for inspiration ...

He also owns a lot of ugly Christmas sweaters. The human eye is so hugely complex Charles Darwin, father of evolution, once remarked it was "absurd in the highest degree" that it could arise ...

The Italian Renaissance artist learned anatomy as a way to improve his drawings of the human form, but he also brought a scientist's eye to the discipline. "He wanted to understand how it worked ...

The human eye owes its wide field of view and high-resolution eyesight to the dome-shaped retina — an area at the back of the eyeball covered in light-detecting cells. Fan and colleagues used a ...