The pandemic may be to blame for spiralling levels of short-sightedness in children, researchers revealed today. Experts have long warned it is because youngsters are spending less time outdoors and ...

I am responding to your recent editorial, “Cold-hearted Florida, tossing kids off KidCare.” I must express my profound disagreement about excluding more children from the Florida KidCare program. This ...

In his answer to this question, Peter Bursztyn writes that he isn’t sure “how one could determine whether a wolf, an eland or a cheetah were short-sighted”. He says: “I can’t imagine devising ...

A combination of routine eye scans and AI has created a powerful new way for measuring short-sightedness to better predict people's long-term risk of serious retinal damage, a new study suggests.

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Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...