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 them ...

Phil, Mag. from Magasin Encyclopedique, February, 1814.

An interdisciplinary team of computer scientists and engineers, led by John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has succeeded in building the first digital cameras that mimic the ...

The compound eyes of ancestral flies picked up only one picture point in each facet. The evolution of a means to split up the light-sensitive cells increased this number to seven, boosting the eye's ...

Robots are getting down to the size of insects, so it seems only natural that they should be getting insect eyes. A consortium of European researchers has developed the artificial Curved Artificial ...

Scientists now explain the remarkable ability of marine zooplankton to swim towards light. A new study reveals how simple eyes of only two cells, sense the direction of light and guide movement ...

Fan worms look more like feather dusters than animals. If you come across one while swimming in the ocean, all you’ll see is a beautiful spray of feathery tentacles, sprouting from a rock. These ...

The eyes of some marine-dwelling creatures have evolved to act like a "depth gauge", allowing these creatures to swim in the open ocean at a certain depth . Pioneering new research, carried out by a ...

Update, February 7, 2018: This story has been updated with information on the 2018 study on deep-sea starfish in the Arctic. Starfish have eyes—one on the end of each of their arms—but what they do ...