Just like the human eye, a deer’s eye contains rods and cones. Rods work to absorb light and cones are for seeing color and distinguishing details. The human eye is packed with cones ...

The lights appear within what is known as an aurora oval, a belt that roughly rings the Earth’s geomagnetic poles, said ...

If you've ever noticed some police cars using interior red lights at night, you might be confused as to why, but there's a ...

Deep-sea fishes also improve their vision at low illuminations ... day-hunting species having a cone type of retina, night-hunt ing forms having mostly rods, whilst in addition the retina is ...

Among five of a bird's senses, sight is arguably the most important. With around 10,000 individual bird species in the world, ...

Author’s mother has a disorder that slowly deteriorates vision — but she says a disability is not a death sentence ...

tritan colour vision was relatively well preserved. Nyctalopia is a later feature of the disorder. Funduscopy and AF imaging revealed a range of macular appearances. There was electrophysiological ...

You appreciate peripheral vision? Thank your rods. This story originally appeared in Volume 24 of Road & Track. I’m not saying that the cone cells, which detect color, are prima donnas ...

Dogs only have two color-sensing cones in their eyes, giving them "dichromatic vision ... Feline eyes also have more "rods" ...