Search Results for 'Eye'

Seeing Quantum Mechanics with the naked eye

A Cambridge team have built a semiconductor chip that converts electrons into a quantum state that emits light but is large enough to see by eye. Because their quantum superfluid is simply set up by shining laser beams on the device, it c [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Dark winters 'led to bigger human brains and eyeballs'

The Oxford University team said bigger brains did not make people smarter. Larger vision processing areas fill the extra capacity, they write in the Royal Society's Biology Letters journal. The scientists measured the eye sockets a [...]

Posted On : Aug, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

The eye and seeing

Almost all living things are sensitive to light. You know for example, that a clam closes its shell when a shadow falls across it. This action is made possible by a number of special cells lining the edge of the shell. Light fall [...]

Posted On : Jul, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Eye closer as stem cells form shape

THE prospect of growing an eye in a laboratory looks more possible after an experiment in which stem cells spontaneously organised themselves into eye-like structures. Japanese researchers watched with surprise as embryonic stem cells fr [...]

Posted On : Apr, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

NASA Eyes Category 4 Hurricane Felicia and a Stubborn Enriqu...

Felicia is the storm that rules the Eastern Pacific Ocean this week, but Enrique refuses to give up. Felicia is a major hurricane with sustained winds near 140 mph, and Enrique is still hanging onto tropical storm status with 50 mph sustain [...]

Posted On : Aug, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

Babies' Eye for Language

Babies can see the differences between languages, even without hearing them.Babies as young as four months can tell their native language from a foreign tongue—even if they can't hear it. This according to a study led by psychologists [...]

Posted On : Jul, 21 2007 | Comments : 0

Eyes

Though eyes are a very complex organ, I can throw some light on the eye layers which are the most common part of this organ. The outer most layer of the eye is called the conjunctiva, it is a very thin epithelial cell layer which keeps the [...]

Posted On : Jun, 18 2007 | Comments : 0

Bionic Eye!

Six blind patients have had their sight partially restored by a "bionic eye" surgically implanted onto their retina. Although it restores only very rudimentary vision, the device has proved so successful that its developers are ab [...]