The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Eye patches aren’t just for pirates and villains. In Elio, Disney/Pixar introduces a young hero with a patch – and breaks old ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...

New technique preserves major nerves, blood vessels, and other critical structures in a hard-to-access area. In a ...

A custom scleral lens system improves visual acuity and comfort in patients with a variety of corneal conditions, research ...

Zenlens custom scleral contact lenses improved visual acuity and yielded more than 11 hours of comfortable wearing time, ...

Inspired by nature, scientists created a self-powered device that recognizes color just like our eyes, paving the way for advanced machine vision.

Top Cleveland Clinic and University of Iowa eye doctors explain it's not just blurry vision or irritation—and not just any ...

This paper summarises the results of the Sclera Segmentation and Eye Recognition Benchmarking Competition (SSERBC 2017). It was organised in the context of the International Joint Conference on ...

In this paper, we propose a new fake iris detection method based on the changes in the reflectance ratio between the iris and the sclera. The proposed method has four advantages over previous works.

One of the early warning signs of high cholesterol can often be detected during a routine eye exam. Your optician may notice ...