Carlene Knight's vision was so bad that she couldn't even maneuver around the call center where she works using her cane. "I was bumping into the cubicles and really scaring people that were sitting ...

A few years ago I posted a column about a rather amazing color vision experiment (Click Here to see my original column). I’m now a little closer to recreating this, but I could still use a little help ...

The film explores the properties of light, including reflection and refraction, through various experiments. It demonstrates how light travels in straight lines, how mirrors can reflect images, and ...

Imagine you are looking at a manhole cover a few paces away on the street. It looks circular, but this is because of some impressive perceptual machinery in your mind. The pattern of light in your eye ...

For generations, adults with amblyopia were told their vision loss was permanent, a childhood problem that medicine could not meaningfully reverse later in life. A new wave of research from MIT and ...

Scientists studying the aging process in the eye have made an important discovery around the role of a so-called "youth" protein, and shown how it promotes a cellular recycling process that maintains ...

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