Eyes Are Windows To The Genetic Risk for Alzheimers

Medicine & Technology Sep 13, 2019

The measure of how fast a person’s pupils dilate during a cognitive test may be a low cost method to check for a genetic risk of developing the Alzheimer’s Disease.

Degenerative Eye Disease May Be Due To Car Pollution

Aug 23, 2019

Air pollution comes in many forms and they affect the human body in more ways than one can imagine. Now, new research shows that they might be causing people to suffer from degenerative eye disease.

Your Eyeballs Play Hosts to a Collection of Microbiome

Jul 01, 2019

The important factor for these types of the microbiome that can be found in eyeballs is to keep it in perfect balance.

Tarantula Spiders Don't Need Any Measuring Scales To Calculate Distance, They Have Lateral Eyes

Apr 23, 2017

Ability to measure the direction and the perception of distance makes tarantula spiders the ultimate navigator. Autonomous University of Madrid researchers found tarantula use their four pairs of lateral eyes to calculate the angle of polarized light which gives them the direction.

Study Says Dyslexia Is Not Related to Eye Sight

May 26, 2015

Researchers have been searching for causes for dyslexia for years now, but a new study out of England has found that it is not connected to bad eyesight. Patients that had near perfect vision were diagnosed with dyslexia at the same rates as those who did not.

The True Story of the Dress That Divided The World

Feb 28, 2015

You probably caught a glimpse of it on your Facebook news feed at least once if not several times over the last few days. Here's how it worked: First, you look at the image and then determine what color the dress is. Is it white? Is it blue?

eSight Glasses Give Blind Mother New Sight & The Ability to See Her Son for the First Time

Jan 26, 2015

Imagine bringing a child into the world but never meeting him, visually speaking. Unfortunately, that's the reality for many legally blind mothers―but eSight aim's to change that.