Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

Technology that preserves the freshness of fruit and vegetables in the blink of an eye is no longer in the ... by exposing produce to near-infrared light for a mere 0.1 second.

When light conditions rapidly change, our eyes have to respond to this change ... a corrective "gain control" mechanism ...