Rachel Fairbank is a freelance science writer based in Texas. When she is not writing, she can be found spending time with her family, or at her local boxing gym. Staying safe during a pandemic means ...

Making time to catch the latest Netflix hit? Easy. Making time to visit the eye doctor? Surprisingly difficult. Enter: Online eye exams — because if you can do it from your couch, why wouldn’t you?

As stay-at-home orders drag on, many of us are looking for ways to DIY tasks we used to outsource to professionals. While self-treating anything you’d normally visit a doctor for requires more care ...

Our ability to see with color vision depends on the presence and function of light-sensing pigments in the cones of our eyes. Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, happens when one or more of ...