Ant nav The old saying 'two sets of eyes are better than one' is certainly true for a species of Australian desert ant. Many insect species have two sets of eyes: large compound eyes that process ...

Our recent study, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, has an interesting answer to that.. See more: Australia’s native bull ants are really just wingless wasps Looking through ant eyes.

Looking through ant eyes. Ants’ eyes are not like ours. Ants have compound eyes with many units, called ommatidia. Their eyes look like an array of LEDs you’d see in a traffic light (except in ...

Their dome-shaped eyes are packed with multiple tiny eye elements topped with corneal lenses. The first digital camera prototype is closest to the fire ant’s compound eyes, which only have 180 ...

Polarization photodetectors (pol-PDs) have widespread applications in geological remote sensing, machine vision, and biological medicine. However, commercial pol-PDs usually require bulky and ...

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.