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Visual cortex

Health

People ‘see’ letters traced on their brain’s surface by an implant

Tracing the shape of letters on the surface of the brain using an implant that electrically stimulates neurons enabled people who have lost their sight to “see” the letters

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Pearse Keane at New Scientist Live 2019

Video

How DeepMind's artificial intelligence is reinventing the eye exam

Video

brittle star

Life

Some starfish-like animals see without eyes by changing body colour

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basketballer in gorilla suit

Mind

If you don’t notice something within 1.5 seconds, you may never see it

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Seeing around corners: How to decipher shadows to see the invisible

Technology

Seeing around corners: How to decipher shadows to see the invisible

Features

Joseph Plateau

Mind

Joseph Plateau’s spinning disc illusions were the forerunner of cinema

Regulars

Yellow glasses don’t help night drivers spot dangers any faster

Technology

Yellow glasses don’t help night drivers spot dangers any faster

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Stylephorus chordatus is one of several species with extra eye pigment genes

Life

Some deep-sea fish have evolved souped-up colour night vision

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eyeball

Health

Gene therapy for common cause of sight loss tested for first time

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This optical illusion breaks your brain for 15 milliseconds

Life

This optical illusion breaks your brain for 15 milliseconds

Showing this optical illusion to monkeys reveals it works by tricking the neurons that perceive global motion into overriding those that track local motions

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Technology

New Call of Duty trials no-helmet immersion - using superblack paint

Culture

Technology

Flashing checkerboard patterns let us see a picture that doesn’t exist

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Humans

Our eyesight is sharpest at twilight – and now we may know why

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Health

Eye implant improves vision in people with age-related blindness

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