A blink of an eye seems natural and instantaneous, but is it? Without a functioning eyelid, the eye can become dry, irritated and eventually lose the ability to see clearly. Now, a team of UCLA ...

Blinking not only keeps our eyes moist, it also plays a key role in how we process visual information, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Rochester in New York set about ...

You do it about 14,000 times a day without thinking. That’s once every four seconds on average. Blinking seems like the most mundane bodily function imaginable, but it turns out those tiny eye ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cat with its eyes closed "Why do cats blink?" might not be a question you've ever really given much thought to. After all, you ...

Illustration of left eyelid attached to an electroactive polymer artificial muscle (EPAM) device after passing through an interpolation unit that is implanted in the lateral orbital wall. The power ...

There are things that just don't go through a race driver's mind when they shift gears and hit the throttle. Wondering if it's 'air' they are breathing or if it's time for their bathroom break is ...

Graduate student Dongyin Hu wears BlinkWise, a device that uses radio and AI to monitor blinks and track eye health. Penn researchers have developed a groundbreaking AI-powered device that turns ...

Fusion researchers are now firing energy bursts so brief that they make a human blink look leisurely. In the latest experiments, a single pulse that lasts a tiny fraction of a second is being used to ...

If you’ve ever had a staring contest with a friend, you may have felt your eyes start to get tired and dry. Eventually, you just had to blink. Blinking helps our eyes stay healthy, and my friend Dr.

Chances are you’ve blinked at least a dozen times in the past minute, whether you’ve realized it or not. We rarely give a fleeting thought to this automatic behavior — not just for us but for most ...