Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 740 million young people could be short-sighted by 2050, study finds The number of short-sighted children and ...

A rise in cases of short-sightedness (myopia) among children in Hong Kong may be linked to a significant decrease in the time they have been able to spend outdoors and a sharp rise in screen time ...

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 ...

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 ...