The inspiration for this technology comes from the compound eye of insects—a structure composed of multiple small eyes that send numerous images to the insect's brain for analysis. In the system ...

Compound eyes evolved rapidly during the Cambrian period ... a one-pixel sense of the world—not enough to qualify as true vision but enough to move toward a source of light or swim away from ...

Kurt G/Shutterstock.com Some species of dragonfly have more than 28,000 lenses per compound eye, a greater number than any other living creature. And with eyes covering almost their entire head, they ...

A challenge in building digital cameras with the hemispherical, compound apposition layouts of arthropod eyes is that essential design requirements cannot be met with existing planar sensor ...

Compound eye of Telephina convexa, showing lots of tiny square lenses. This trilobite swam in oceans around 450 million years ago. Enlarged eyes let in more light and provided wrap-around vision. So ...

Phil, Mag. from Magasin Encyclopedique, February, 1814.

Vision made it possible for animals to become ... Trilobites went down a slightly different route, evolving compound eyes with multiple lenses. But the basic sequence of events was the same.

Researchers have successfully developed a novel drug to restore vision. The treatment method restores vision through retinal nerve regeneration.

Macular degeneration is an age-related retina disease that causes vision loss in the center ... similar to the compound eyes of flies, to project multiple images onto the retina simultaneously.

The research team successfully induced neural regeneration and vision recovery in a disease-model mouse by administering a compound that blocks the PROX1 (Prospero Homeobox 1) protein, which ...