A median (parietal) eye on the head of a regal horned lizard. (© Bruno Frías Morales/iNaturalist/CC BY 4.0) The human eye is ...

Deep inside the human brain, a small gland in the middle of the forehead helps keep time. As darkness arrives, the pineal ...

Far from being an obstacle to the theory of natural selection, the evolution of the complex eye is one of its most splendid ...

Machines can now recognize faces, read signs, and guide cars through busy streets. Yet even the most advanced systems still ...

Human eye evolution is hidden in something familiar—those pretty familiar-looking eyes staring right back at you when you look in the mirror. But where do they come from? Recent studies have shown ...

Eye tracking plays a critical role in the latest virtual and augmented reality headsets and is an important technology in the entertainment industry, scientific research, medical and behavioral ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. For most of human history, green eyes didn’t exist.

A close-up photograph of what appears to be a light-brown human eyeball shows the organ's expansive, cavernous depths surrounding a seemingly bottomless, black pit that, together, mimics the intricate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, ...