The pictures featured on this profile showcase details that the human eye could easily miss. Thanks to lenses designed to ...

Researchers from London's Moorfields Eye Hospital, biotech firm MeiraGTx and University College London have demonstrated that ...

Human eyes can’t decipher individual pixels from far away—this video shows why. A version of this story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Short for “picture ...

1. The image projected onto the back of our eyes is upside down. Our brain decodes this image so that we perceive it the right way up. 2. Experiments by MIT scientists show that the human brain can ...

By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would look like through their eyes. The images below each show a scene as viewed by a human. Drag the slider to the ...

The human eye. videoThe human eye This short film offers ... videoThe human heart This short film uses 3D CGI images to show the movement of blood through the chambers of the heart and also ...