When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection ...

Mariella is an assistant editor at The Scientist. She has a background in neuroscience, and her work has appeared in Drug Discovery News and Massive Science.

The intricacy and seeming perfection of the eye, both as an object of anatomical beauty and as a working machine, have worried and intrigued scientists, philosophers and zealots, especially during ...

In this video, learn about different parts of the human eye and how our sight works. Follow me please class. We’re here at the optician’s to get a good look at a human eye and find out how it ...

Inside the human eye, the retina is made up of several types of cells, including the light-sensing photoreceptors that ...

In fact, investigators think that of the 17% of the human genome that is encoded by L1-related sequences, only about 100 active L1 elements remain. Moreover, research suggests that even these few ...