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The Vision Revolution: Eyes Are the Source of Human 'Superpowers'
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 03, 2009 |
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For Mark Changizi, it’s all in the eyes.
Not just your imagination: The brain perceives optical illusions as real motion
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Ever get a little motion sick from an illusion graphic designed to look like it's moving? A new study suggests that these illusions do more than trick the eye; they may also convince the brain that the graphic ...
Vision problems prompt older drivers to put down the keys
Jan 06, 2009 |
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With 30 million drivers in the US aged 65 and over, we count on older Americans to recognize when they can no longer drive safely and decide that it's time to stay off the road. A new study finds that a decrease in vision ...
Study predicts 40 percent increase in blindness in Nigeria by 2020
Sep 08, 2009 |
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By 2020, 1.4 million Nigerians over age 40 will lose their sight, and the vast majority of the causes are either preventable or treatable, according to the Nigeria National Blindness and Visual Impairment Study Group.
Experimental treatments restore partial vision to blind people
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Two experimental treatments, a retinal prosthesis and fetal tissue transplant, restored some vision to people with blinding eye diseases. The findings, presented at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for ...
Researchers create all seeing 'eye'
Jan 05, 2009 |
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The remarkable ability of insects to look in all directions at once has been emulated by a team of international scientists who have built an artificial 'eye' with an unobstructed all-round view.
New supplement may help slow sight loss in elderly
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Queen's University Belfast academics have helped develop an antioxidant supplement which may slow down sight loss in elderly people.
Bioluminescence imaging used for eye cancer detection
Oct 13, 2009 |
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At the moment, doctors rely on biopsy analysis to determine the progression of eye cancer. However, researchers now believe that a new technology, bioluminescence imaging (BLI), will allow doctors to detect tumors earlier ...
Sunlight could stop short-sightedness
Jan 06, 2009 |
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A spreading pandemic of myopia among the world’s urban children may be avoided if children spend at least two to three hours each day outdoors.
There is more to bats' vision than meets the eye
Jul 28, 2009 |
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The eyes of nocturnal bats possess two spectral cone photoreceptor types for daylight and colour vision. Reporting in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Br ...
'Nature' and 'nurture' variables early predictors of AMD
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Like many diseases, causes for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) can be categorized as either "nature" or "nurture". Researchers think these factors, when used in the proper model, can be strong predictors of the disease.
Human eye inspires advance in computer vision (w/Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Inspired by the behavior of the human eye, Boston College computer scientists have developed a technique that lets computers see objects as fleeting as a butterfly or tropical fish with nearly double the accuracy and 10 times ...
Scientists reveal secret of girl with 'all seeing eye'
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered how a 10-year-old girl born with half a brain is able to see normally through one eye. The youngster, from Germany, has both fields of vision in one eye and is the ...
'Now you see it, now you don't'
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Queen Mary scientists have, for the first time, used computer artificial intelligence to create previously unseen types of pictures to explore the abilities of the human visual system.
Vigorous exercise may help prevent vision loss
Feb 10, 2009 |
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There's another reason to dust off those running shoes. Vigorous exercise may help prevent vision loss, according to a pair of studies from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The studies ...
