In his second collection, ‘Loud & Smart & in Color’ (Silver Sprocket, Feb.), the cartoonist and his signature animal avatar return with a collection that toggles between absurd and the mundane—this ...

AI-powered research on one of the largest eye studies to date has created the most detailed maps of the retina ever produced.

BY DR RICHARD AYAHBlack and white, they say are obvious. It is clear when something is black, that it is not white. That is how people argue. The assumption is that there is a common understanding of ...

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Basically, photoreceptors in the eye take two main forms, rods and cones. Rods are more sensitive to light but cannot detect colours. With enough light, cones kick in to determine colours.

We see color because photoreceptor cones in our eyes detect light waves corresponding to red, green, and blue, while dimness or brightness is detected by photoreceptor rods. Many non-mammalian ...

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There are rods, which are used in night vision and peripheral vision. Rods identify the different shades of gray. Cones, the second type of photoreceptors, process color. As they evolved to hunt ...