Vision

Solutions to age-related vision problems now come in a bottle. How well do they work?

From conjunctivitis to vertigo, coronavirus infections can affect disparate senses

Analysis of a fossil bird reveals an unexpected facet of dinosaur life.

A simple exercise reveals how the ear’s vestibular system affects your vision.

Can scarfing carrots really help you see better in the dark?

James DiCarlo is a professor of neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT who researches visual object recognition in primates.

  // Learn what causes dizziness in this new video from Scientific American‘s Instant Egghead series. In this short movie, I explain how your inner ears work to help you balance, orient yourself and see what’s around you in a stable fashion.

Light triggers a quick neural reaction even in blind people

    Editor’s note: Brain Basics from Scientific American Mind is a series of short video primers on the brain and how we feel, think and act.

At first glance, most eyes look the same. There’s a small opening through which light passes. That light goes through the transparent liquid behind the lens and strikes the retina, a thin film of light-sensitive nerve cells that line the back of the eye.

Hubel had an irreverent attitude towards science “with a capital S”.

The vanishing octopus is back. This stunning cephalopod, caught on video by Roger Hanlon, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, has been making the rounds online again.