A woman in Minnesota lost part of her vision and inadvertently put her entire household at risk of mercury poisoning, most likely from using beauty products containing high levels of the toxic ...

Peripheral vision enables humans to see shapes that aren’t directly in our line of sight, albeit with less detail. This ability expands our field of vision and can be helpful in many situations, such ...

When you think of vision trouble, you might look at the issue head-on—literally. Determining how well you can see right in front of you is often the gauge for whether or not it’s time for a ...

Fog silently disrupts peripheral vision, slows reaction time, and increases accident risk. Understanding how winter fog ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) gradually affects central vision in one or both eyes while leaving peripheral vision (on the sides) intact. This peripheral vision – encompassing everything you ...

A Mr. Magoo with thick glasses peering out from behind the wheel might not inspire confidence from his fellow motorists, but a new study shows other types of vision loss might be even more dangerous ...

Consider how you might shake up your routine and invite serendipity onto your path. When you’ve identified goals you want to achieve, and you continually open up your mind to shifts in your day-to-day ...

In our lifetimes, we encounter hundreds of thousands of faces. Each person's unique exposure to faces largely determines their "face space"—a model of how we encode, perceive, and remember the faces ...