Known on the street as DragonFLY, this compound is more than a recreational curiosity - it’s a chemically potent substance ...

A new method has been developed for fabricating 3D compound eyes. The technique uses a 3D laser to ablate a curved surface, followed by etching in acid. This method can produce high-quality 3D ...

The first working compound-eye-style camera can’t quite see like a dragonfly.Dragonfly eyes are made of tens of thousands of individual light sensors, says biologist Robert Olberg to the blogger ...

The new technique uses a 3D laser to ablate a curved surface, followed by etching in acid. This method can produce high-quality 3D concave lens arrays that can be used to make soft compound eyes.

A UC Berkeley engineer, entranced by the uncanny ability of insects like dragonflies and bumblebees to peer in all directions at once, has for the first time created microscopic versions of their ...

Dragonflies have large, compound eyes made up of many tiny units. The eyes are joined and make up most of the dragonfly’s head. They have short antennae and six legs that are ideal for perching ...

The compound eyes of the robber fly. These flies have a concentrated area of 78 micron-diameter lenses in the center of each eye, more than double the size of the lenses near the edges, which are ...

Ancient animals saw the world through multi-faceted compound eyes, a new fossil discovery reveals. The ancient eyes, which date back half a billion years, probably belonged to a predator, likely a ...

16. Male striped horsefly (Tabanus lineola)As well as having massive eyeballs that join at the top of the head, these horsefly males have two different sized ommatidia (the photoreceptor units that ...

What am I looking at? These images show several views of the repeating units, called ommatidia (1), that make up the eye of a dragonfly. The colors you see in these images are the result of a process ...