Areas of the country where disadvantaged pupils perform worse are more likely to have large populations of poor white children, a report has suggested. The Institute for Government (IfG) think tank ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Multifocal and single vision lenses performed similarly ...

White pupils are the least likely group to get into a top university for the third year running, analysis suggests. Official data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows only 11.7 per cent of ...

Q: My elderly cat’s pupils seem to stay dilated, even in bright light. Why? A: In old cats, dilated pupils are often just a sign of a harmless condition called iris atrophy. However, if your cat has ...

Martin Schaefer is affiliated with Karolinska Institutet. You have probably heard the saying that the eyes are the windows to the soul, but now it turns out that they are also connected to how we ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

The size of our pupils fluctuates as we breathe. They are at their smallest as we start to breathe in, increase steadily to reach their largest size when we are in the middle of breathing out, then ...

From a scientific perspective, it may sound a bit too fanciful to call our eyes “windows to the soul.” But research suggests that looking into them can, quite literally, offer a peep into a person’s ...

Time takes its toll on the eyes. Now a funky, Hitchcockian video of 64 eyeballs, all rolling and blinking in different directions, is providing a novel visual of one way in which eyes age. A video ...

Pupillary distance helps center your eyeglasses prescription. Your eyeglasses provider normally measures it for you, but you won’t find it on your prescription. If you order glasses online, you’ll ...

Rayna Bell, a herpetology expert and curator at the California Academy of Sciences, told Snopes it's true that some frogs have heart-shaped pupils, adding that the photo in question appears to be a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For all people, pupil size has an important role in balancing incoming light with depth of field to optimize ...