A camera smaller than a fingernail can now see what most high-speed cameras miss. Inspired by the eyes of insects, scientists ...

Drawing inspiration from insects’ compound eyes, researchers have created a lens-free compound eye with motion-tracking capabilities and an incredibly wide field of vision. The Hong Kong ...

Their enhanced visual field and ability to detect movement help insects avoid predators and catch their prey. These sections come from an area on the top of the dragonfly’s eye called the functional ...

All insects have six legs that have joints, compound eyes, and one pair of antennae. Creatures with different numbers of legs (such as spiders or centipedes) might look similar to insects, but are ...

The compound eye found in most insects is made up of a few to thousands of individual units called ommatidia, and each ommatidium includes a rhabdom, a transparent structure under the lens ...

We call this kind of eye a compound eye, and because all the little lenses point in different directions, animals that have them are very good at detecting movement – especially of big things ...

Many insects can fly through dark forests or hunt at dusk because of their special compound eyes. These eyes contain many tiny lenses, called ommatidia, that each collect light from different ...