Your Eyes Are Wired Backwards: Here's Why
Sunday, March 15, 2015 - 10:40
in Biology & Nature
The human eye is optimized to have good color vision at day and high sensitivity at night. But until recently it seemed as if the cells in the retina were wired the wrong way round, with light traveling through a mass of neurons before it reaches the light-detecting rod and cone cells. New research presented at a meeting of the American Physical Society has uncovered a remarkable vision-enhancing function for this puzzling structure. read more