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When you see something—a tree in your backyard, say, or the toy your toddler hands you—that visual information travels from your retinas to your brain. And like a train stopping at stations along its route, the information ...
Aug 15, 2025
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The human brain builds mental representations of the world based on the signals and information detected via the human senses. While we perceive simultaneously occurring sensory stimuli as being synchronized, the generation ...
It seemed like a simple idea. Design a device that will make it possible for a human eye to remain alive and functional outside of the body. At least for a few hours. And then a few days.
Jul 24, 2025
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When we think about the side effects of medicines, we might think of nausea, fatigue or dizziness. But there's another, lesser-known risk that can have lasting—and sometimes permanent—consequences: hearing loss. A wide range ...
Jul 22, 2025
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Scientists at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered that certain retinal cells can rewire themselves when vision begins to deteriorate in retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic ...
Jul 7, 2025
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Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for processing color and fine spatial detail, and another that's involved in spatial localization and ...
Jul 3, 2025
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Cars may be a modern phenomenon, but motion sickness is not. More than 2,000 years ago, the physician Hippocrates wrote "sailing on the sea proves that motion disorders the body." In fact, the word nausea derives from the ...
Jun 24, 2025
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Have you noticed that more children than ever are wearing glasses? Global research indicates 35% of children are affected by myopia, needing glasses to see clearly at a distance. If the trend continues, the number is expected ...
Jun 17, 2025
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A non-DNA based test could identify viral infections in patients in minutes. When a clinician suspects a patient has a viral illness, the presence of specific virus types can be confirmed through a DNA sequencing test. However, ...
Jun 10, 2025
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On April 8, 2024, a once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse kept the eyes of millions of Quebecers riveted on the sky. But the experience left at least two among them—a 34-year-old man and a 17-year-old woman—with permanent ...
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