Atomic force microscopy, laser ablation, and etching with a witches brew of toxic chemicals: sounds like [Zachary Tong] has been playing in the lab again, and this time he found a way to fabricate ...

Q: What got you thinking that there might have been one and only one evolution of the primitive eye? A: This was a pure accident, or serendipity. We stumbled upon a gene in the fruit fly ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...