Color vision in vertebrates is usually achieved through the interaction of various photopigments in the cone cells found in the retina. Each of these…
Ordinarily, you won't encounter a radiation thermometer until somebody puts one in your ear at the doctor's office or you point one at your forehead when…
These results, published recently in the Journal of Experimental Biology, are the first demonstration that vision in marine invertebrates is highly sensitive…
Optogenetics is an entirely new area of biophysics and biomedicine, which investigates techniques for controlling the nerve and muscle cells in a living…
Imagine being able to shape a pulse of light in any conceivable manner–compressing it, stretching it, splitting it in two, changing its intensity or altering…
Using 23 years of satellite data, the new findings show the Great Whirl is larger and longer-lived than scientists previously thought. At its peak, the giant…