When he was two years old, Ben stopped seeing out of his left eye. His mother took him to the doctor and soon discovered he had retinal cancer in both eyes. After chemotherapy and radiation failed, ...

Phylogenetic analysis of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is the agent responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is crucial to detecting emerging ...

The apple test also introduces a spectrum of visual imagery, which shows two conditions that fall at either end: aphantasia and hyperphantasia. Those with aphantasia don’t see anything in their mind’s ...

"Sense of number" refers to the classical idea that we perceive the number of items (numerosity) intuitively. However, whether the brain signals numerosity spontaneously, in the absence of learning, ...

Uninterpreted data can be an overwhelming mess! Fortunately, visual tools can capably transform complex datasets into digestible insights that empower students, professionals, and educators to make ...

Just when you thought no one could possibly launch yet another search engine along comes Viewzi. Viewzi, like several other new search engines, is actually a meta-search engine aggregating the results ...

Just as when we humans reach for objects, the hummingbird hawk moth uses its visual sense to place its long proboscis precisely on a flower to search for nectar, according to biologists. This is why ...

Many esteemed educators have passed through the halls of the School of Visual Arts. Still, the impact of the late Marshall Arisman, the prolific artist and founder of the College’s MFA Illustration as ...

Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University. His latest book is Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. Vaughn PhD is a neuroscientist at UCLA. When he was two years old, Ben ...