Japanese researchers have developed self-sustaining artificial synapses that distinguish colors with 10-nanometer precision.

Japanese researchers took inspiration from our eyes, creating an artificial retina that could give today's machine vision ...

A Texas woman has died after contracting a rare infection from a brain-eating amoeba while using tap water to clear out her ...

Imagine touching an object in total darkness. Then, a few minutes later, you recognize it effortlessly... just by looking at ...

Sleep also enables the body to repair and replenish cellular material that is damaged or depleted. Important bodily functions ...

Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope have developed a new way to observe the radio sky at multiple frequencies, and ...

Our cells rely on microscopic highways and specialized protein vehicles to move everything—from positioning organelles to carting protein instructions to disposing of cellular garbage. These highways ...

For instance, one study found that exposure to blue light had a positive effect on how your brain processes, alertness, and reaction times. For athletes, this may improve decision-making and help ...

The new research, however, has found that in the morning, exposure to blue light has the opposite ... structure inside the brain, which gets signals from light-detecting cells in the eye.

Getty Images Researchers tested different ... analyzing their sleep quality and brain activity. Those exposed to higher levels of blue light during the day showed noticeable improvements in ...

It was just the one image ... artificial light source would see it as black and blue. We’ve known for a very long time that our perception has a lot to do with our brain’s guesses about ...

Share on Pinterest Maskot / Getty Images To help reduce damage from ... The signals that blue light sends to your brain can also disrupt your body’s production of the sleep hormone melatonin.