Optogenetics, recognized by the 2026 medicine Nobel, makes cells respond to light, including eye cells that normally relay ...

Are people who have been blind for most of their lives better at hearing than sighted individuals? In a new study in ...

Soraya Correa of National Industries for the Blind says blind Americans are helping hold the line against historic wildfires this year, manufacturing the fire hoses and essential equipment that make ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have developed a smart glasses system that can help blind ...

New research shows that the brains of sighted and blind people adapt in a similar way when they learn to use sound echoes to understand the world without vision. The study, led by Durham University, ...

I want my sight back. I can say that honestly—and still live my life right now. In this conversation from The Blind Surfer ...

That moment when someone mentions a blind person, what image pops into your mind? Probably someone in dark glasses navigating with a white cane, completely unable to perceive the world around them.

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics recently set out to investigate whether people who are blind gesture like sighted people when talking about the world, and how ...

While conducting research into meeting accessibility for software engineers who are blind or low vision, the first problem Yoonha Cha encountered was a lack of awareness. “I’ve talked to sighted ...

DotLumen founder Cornel Amariei describes his product as a "self driving" system to enable blind and low-vision people a way to get around. It's essentially the electronic equivalent to a guide dog, ...

Blind and low-vision users face the same password challenges as everyone else, but the tools meant to make security easier often end up getting in the way. A study from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for ...

Eric Bridges, CEO of American Foundation for the Blind, tells PEOPLE that the new Barbie "can help get blindness out into society in a way that is accurate and attention-getting" Hedy Phillips is the ...