The images below each show a scene as viewed by a human. Drag the slider to the left to see how an animal would see the same scene. Whereas human eyes contain three types of colour-detecting cells, ...

Retinas in all mammals, from mouse to man, are made up of light-sensitive cells known as cones and rods, named for their shapes, which convert light into nerve signals that are then transmitted to ...

V3Solar is a renewable energy company that developed a cone-shaped photovoltaic solar panel that generates 20 times more ...

Typically, our colour vision is trichromatic, meaning we have three types of cone cells in our eyes, blue, green and red, that respond to short, medium and long wavelengths of light. Each cone ...

There are three different types of cone cells which produce colour vision. The amount of light entering the eye is controlled by a reflex action. The size of the pupil changes in response to ...

Researchers report they have used retinal cone photoreceptors derived from human stem cells to restore vision in mice with advanced retinal degeneration. They are now designing a clinical trial to ...

“Cones are particularly interesting as the cell type that matters most for our daily operation in color vision,” said Rui Chen, a molecular geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine who was not ...