Reading seems like a straightforward process. The eyes scan the words, and the brain turns them into meaning. But it's not always that simple. Readers regularly skip words, sometimes without realizing ...

More than a billion people worldwide live with avoidable vision loss. Andrew Bastawrous is showing how technology and data ...

For most people, the world is just as it appears to be. When we observe a complex scene, we have a sense that we see things as they are, with full sharpness, color, and resolution. However, the ...

Jan Donnell thought she understood her mother’s daily struggles with dementia. She’s been caring for Rosalyn Hyek for the ...

Animals don't experience the world passively. A hawk tilts its head to track prey. A person leans forward to read a sign.

Your eyes are often one of the first features people notice and one of the first areas to reveal the effects of aging. Over time, the skin around the eyes ...

Most people absorb social media content without questioning it. Switching to active reading is one of the most practical ...

Some people leave you energized and steady while others drain you. We often notice these reactions before we can explain why: A colleague who immediately feels trustworthy, a manager who puts you on ...

A clever new brain imaging study shows our brains have to work harder when we read on screens rather than paper books.

Patients with untreatable conditions such as sight loss or loss of motor function could be closer to a viable technology for ...

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...