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Male broad-tailed hummingbird

Life

Birds and other animals may see colours that we cannot even imagine

Experiments with wild hummingbirds suggest that they perceive four so-called non-spectral colours that the cells in our eyes make it impossible for us to see

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Visual cortex

Health

People ‘see’ letters traced on their brain’s surface by an implant

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How DeepMind's artificial intelligence is reinventing the eye exam

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brittle star

Life

Some starfish-like animals see without eyes by changing body colour

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basketballer in gorilla suit

Mind

If you don’t notice something within 1.5 seconds, you may never see it

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Seeing around corners: How to decipher shadows to see the invisible

Technology

Seeing around corners: How to decipher shadows to see the invisible

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Joseph Plateau

Mind

Joseph Plateau’s spinning disc illusions were the forerunner of cinema

Regulars

Yellow glasses don’t help night drivers spot dangers any faster

Technology

Yellow glasses don’t help night drivers spot dangers any faster

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Stylephorus chordatus is one of several species with extra eye pigment genes

Life

Some deep-sea fish have evolved souped-up colour night vision

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eyeball

Health

Gene therapy for common cause of sight loss tested for first time

A woman has become the first person to receive gene therapy for age-related macular degeneration, one of the most common causes of sight loss

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Life

This optical illusion breaks your brain for 15 milliseconds

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Technology

New Call of Duty trials no-helmet immersion - using superblack paint

Culture

Technology

Flashing checkerboard patterns let us see a picture that doesn’t exist

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Humans

Our eyesight is sharpest at twilight – and now we may know why

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