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Warneken talked about behavioral studies in infants and chimps and their inherent altruistic inclinations. And Dowling described his neurobiological research of visual systems and the retina...

Author: By Alex C. Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘CommuniTea’ Briefs Students About MMB | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...working in the most muscular natural settings. In the same way that he was turned off by harsh contrast in black-and-white pictures, he disliked strident color. What he was after were tones, colors you can't put a name to, indeterminate registers that shift in the retina and brain. Even his sunsets were powder-puff pink. (Read "The Old Master of Majesty Ansel Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ansel Adams: The Black-and-White Master, in Color | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...filters for dealing with the situation. If you look straight at the sun during a partial eclipse—like the 75 percent one that occurred in Hong Kong on July 22—the sun’s rays can penetrate and photochemically change the makeup of your retina, potentially causing permanent damage...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan | Title: The Revealing | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

...group says the iPS cells generated using their method are equivalent to those made using Yamanaka's strategy. In fact, they seem to flourish more robustly than the traditional iPS cells, at least in lab tests that involve regrowing certain cells found in the retina. This could lead to a potential treatment to replace damaged eye cells in conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Researchers Hail Stem Cells Safe for Human Use | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

...cheap stunt, and it existed only in the camera, not in the studio. But true holograms are commercially viable, as are a host of other emerging optical technologies, such as 3D optical data storage, LED lamps, and virtual retinal display, which is like projecting images directly onto the retina...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Riding the Wave of the Future | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

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