The pandemic may be to blame for spiralling levels of short-sightedness in children, researchers revealed today. Experts have long warned it is because youngsters are spending less time outdoors and ...

Spending more of your life studying could cause you to lose your sight, according to UK research which found every year of education incrementally increases short-sightedness. The difference is so ...

Around 1 in 3 children and teens around the world is short (near)-sighted, with the global prevalence of myopia set to top 740 million cases by 2050 in this age group, finds a pooled data analysis of ...

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.

If you find yourself squinting to read road signs or struggling to recognise faces across the street, you’re not alone. Short-sightedness – or myopia – is a common eye condition in the UK. It happens ...

Daniella Gray is a Newsweek Family & Parenting Reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on family dynamics, childhood development, parenting styles, U.S. education and current trends in family and ...

An optometrist tells us how we might test a cheetah’s eyesight, and dog owners share their stories of their pets’ short-sightedness ...

I am responding to your recent editorial, “Cold-hearted Florida, tossing kids off KidCare.” I must express my profound disagreement about excluding more children from the Florida KidCare program. This ...

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 ...