Contact lenses have enabled people to see beyond the visible light range, picking up flickers of infrared light even in the dark – or with their eyes closed. The lenses contain engineered ...

Sunglasses that darken automatically in response to bright sunlight have been available for eyeglasses for 40 years. But adapting this flexibility to contact lenses has proven challenging. Now ...

If you wear contact lenses, you may soon be able to ditch your sunglasses. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first contact lenses with light-adaptive technology just last week.