UC San Diego biologists have identified the genetic switch that added a ninth photoreceptor to butterfly eyes, revealing how ...

They take up most of the insect’s head, and for good reason: when it comes to vision, dragonflies are in a league of their own. But why exactly are their eyes so big? The answer comes down to survival ...

The research paper was featured as the cover article in Science Robotics (Volume 9, Issue 90) in May 2024. The cover shows a fusion of an image composite of a robber fly’s eye on the left and an ...

As one of the most successful eye designs in the animal kingdom, natural compound eyes (NCEs) have attracted significant research attention in replicating the anatomical configuration to form ...

Here’s what compound eyes really do — and why flies see you in slow motion. In this episode of Big Ideas, Niba explores how insects actually see the world — from the structure of ommatidia to motion ...

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Esme Hedley is a science writer based in London. Electrical engineer Young Min Song remembers when his colleague at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea asked him why the ...