Odds are that if you are reading this, you are using your sense of vision. In fact, 80% of the sensory information we take in at any given moment is obtained through our eyes. Most sight is created ...

In an evolutionary battle of the sexes, male fruit flies have sharpened their eyesight to avoid being tricked by females seeking food gifts while pretending to be fertile. To increase the chance that ...

About five years ago, a bizarre idea occurred to me. At the time, I was designing complex electronic circuits to mimic a small portion of an insect brain. These circuits would be created on a tiny ...

Figure 1. (A) Vision in a fast-eyed insect. Reflected light from swiftly moving objects sequentially stimulates the photoreceptors along the individual optical channels called ommatidia, of which the ...