A diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids may help protect children from developing short-sightedness, new research suggests. The study examined more than 1,000 Chinese children aged 6 to 8, drawing ...

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 ...

A major study of laser correction for short-sightedness shows that the procedure is as safe and effective in older teenagers as it is in adults, according to research presented at the 43rd Congress of ...

A diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, found predominantly in fish oils, may help ward off the development of short sightedness (myopia) in children, while a high intake of saturated fats, found in foods ...

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 ...