The risk of having an eye stroke is higher if your optic foramen is smaller than average - nerve fibres enter the eye through this hole when travelling to the brain and down the optic nerve.

It passes through an opening running through the hiatus of the facial canal, then along a narrow passage called the middle cranial fossa. It then exits the skull through the foramen lacerum. From ...

The optic chiasm is an X-shaped structure formed by the crossing of the optic nerves in the brain. The optic nerve connects the brain to the eye. To biologists, the optic chiasm is thought to be a ...

Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses. Nature Communications , 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53110-x Cite This ...

WI vs Ban 2nd Test: The West Indies aim to solidify their victory after a dominating 201-run win against Bangladesh in the first Test at Antigua. The second Test, held in Kingston, Jamaica, sees the ...

Eight people have been arrested after a powerful explosion in Kosovo damaged a canal, temporarily stopping power and water supplies to the country's cities. Prime Minister Albin Kurti blamed ...

A bird's-eye-view of the Yucatán Peninsula has revealed a massive 4,000-year-old fishery in Belize's largest inland wetland. The long, zigzagging network of human-made canals and ponds re-engineers ...

The long, zigzagging network of human-made canals and ponds re-engineers the watery landscape into what some researchers describe as a massive fish trap, covering 42 square kilometers (16 square ...

In context: At a time when undersea cables are a prime target for sabotage by bad actors, tech companies are still interested in building more of them. As internet use continues to surge globally ...

palatovaginal canal, and sphenopalatine foramen) (25). These findings provided exciting information regarding the ability of 3D volumetric MR imaging to characterize external CN involvement by head ...