The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...

Raptors such as eagles, hawks and falcons have a reputation for having great vision, and that reputation is well-earned.

Two eyes are a typical number for most adult insects. It’s actually a misconception that insects tend to have more than two eyes; this trait is more common in spiders, crabs, and other arthropods.

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Memoir upon the Compound and Smooth or Simple Eyes of Insects, and on the Manner in Which These Two Species of Eyes Concur in Vision ...

How small can an organ get while remaining functional? Parasitic wasps from the Megaphragma genus are ideal organisms in which to investigate this question. Using a range of senses, including vision, ...

The ability for insects to quickly respond to threats from predators is also due to their compound eyes. The KAIST research team developed a technology that overcomes the limitations of existing ...

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 ...

Crocodiles: Crocodiles have a protective membrane that covers their eyes, especially when submerged, but it's not a true eyelid. Birds of prey (e.g., eagles): Some birds of prey, like eagles, have a ...

Compound Eyes: A Mosaic of Images The primary visual organs in most insects are the compound eyes, which are made up of many tiny lens-capped 'eye-units' called ommatidia. Each ommatidium captures a ...

These tiny flies have two prominent compound eyes. Each eye of a fruit fly is composed of 750 ommatidia. Although most from the same species share a standard eye color, fruit flies have different eye ...