We’ve known for years now that rates of short-sightedness (scientifically known as myopia) are rising globally. Some estimates even suggest that half of the world’s population will be short-sighted by ...

Soaring rates of short-sightedness in children are alarming parents and doctors around the world. Can we turn the tide? In the late 1980s and 1990s, parents in Singapore began noticing a worrying ...

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.

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 ...