Remarkable technological developments for efficient image recognition (ie, image
acquisition and image data processing) have been reported in the past decade. Such …

Guanine crystals are widely used in nature to manipulate light. The first part of this feature
article explores how organisms are able to construct an extraordinary array of optical …

Highlights•Animals vary in their ability to perceive changes in their environment
visually.•Temporal perception can be quantified using critical flicker fusion (CFF).•High CFF …

Knowledge of the interplay between the morphology, composition and optical appearance of
biological photonic systems can provide broad inspiration for novel artificial photonic …

In this review, we consider the definitions and experimental approaches to emotional
contagion and prosocial behaviour in mammals and explore their evolutionary …

Optical components made fully or partially from reconfigurable, stimuli‐responsive, soft
solids or fluids—collectively referred to as soft photonics—are poised to form the platform for …

In the natural evolutionary process, biological creatures have developed diverse visual
structures apt for their habitational environments. These natural vision structures have …

Light influences most ecosystems on earth, from sun-dappled forests to bioluminescent
creatures in the ocean deep. Biologists have long studied nano-and micro-scale organismal …

Inspired by plant movements caused by water swelling and deswelling within nano‐and
mesoscale cellulose fibrillar structures, asymmetric exposure of water vapors to thin films of …

Microbial rhodopsins are photoreceptive membrane proteins that transport various ions
using light energy. While they are widely used in optogenetics to optically control neuronal …