Teensy, Eyeless Worms Have Completely New Light-Detecting Cells

It may sound like a mutant superhero power, but a tiny, eyeless roundworm has a new type of light-detecting cell in its eye. And the photoreceptor is 50 times more efficient at capturing light than its counterpart in the human eye is, a new study finds.

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