If current trends continue, half the world’s population will be myopic by 2050. Such is the stark warning recently issued by researchers in the prestigious journal Ophthalmology.

Had enough of sitting at lights that seem to have been programmed by a sadist? It would seem one group of boffins are prepared to wait no longer…

In a chilling warning for an ageing society, an eminent Ophthalmologist claims hundreds in the UK already suffer irreversible sight loss every year due to insufficient NHS resources.

It is estimated that over 50% of cases of blindness worldwide can be attributed to cataracts. For the first time, stem cell therapy has been successfully used to correct the condition.

A team of specialists at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford are trialling a bionic eye implant in six patients with little or no sight.

The first multi-disciplinary research of its kind has shown that night-time pedestrians feel safer in streets illuminated with white light than they do when lit by the more common sodium-yellow light.

In a remarkable change of direction in the search for energy efficient lighting, researchers at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a technique that could make tungsten filament bulbs three times more efficient than LED

In a pioneering clinical trial, a patient with macular degeneration has been treated using lab-grown stem cells at University College London.

Nuevo Saposoa is typical of many Peruvian rainforest villages. Wet, dark, and with little access to electricity, good light is only to be found in the tree canopy.

Another milestone in the journey to internet via light waves was achieved this week when Li-Fi it was tested by an Estonian start-up in Tallinn , using Li-Fi enabled LED bulbs to transmit data at speeds of 1Gbps.