The study illustrates how photoreceptor cells inside of insects' compound eye systems do much more work than we ever knew, but moreover, that insects can see quite well despite popular belief. Because ...

Researchers have discovered that the compound eyes of today's insects and crustaceans are still constructed in much the same way as they were in their extinct ancestors 500 million years ago. The ...

Sept. 5 (UPI) --New research suggests insects can see the world at a much finer resolution than previously thought. Until now, scientists assumed the compound eyes -- thousands of tiny lensed eyes ...

Of Flybots And Bug Eyes: Insects Inspire Inventors Miniaturizing technology is really hard — gears, rotors, belts and pistons that work perfectly at human size just don't work very well at the ...

A newly created biologically inspired compound eye is helping scientists understand how insects use their compound eyes to sense an object and its trajectory with such speed. The compound eye ...

If you look at the eyes of a person in a portrait by a master painter, they seem to follow you as you move around the room. Some insects give us the same feeling of being watched when you look at ...

The compound eye camera’s expansive field of view isn’t what makes it so special. Fisheye lenses are a favorite of photographers, and they already give you a 180-degree view of the world.

Most adult insects have two kinds of eyes. Small “ocelli” on various parts of the head are light-sensitive but are thought not to make good images. The two large “compound eyes” that are ...

Cameras inspired by the compound eyes of insects enable an extremely wide field of view without expensive lenses, potentially offering cheap, simple and lightweight visual sensors for navigation ...

Microscopy revealed the stunning compound structure in trilobite eyes. Trilobites — those ubiquitous, half-billion-year-old armored sea bugs — had eyes that were faceted like disco balls. Now ...