{"id":34569,"date":"2017-02-14T23:24:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-just-showed-that-human-eyes-can-detect-a-single-photon"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:13:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:13:25","slug":"scientists-just-showed-that-human-eyes-can-detect-a-single-photon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-just-showed-that-human-eyes-can-detect-a-single-photon","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Showed That Human Eyes Can Detect A Single Photon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-showed-that-human-eyes-can-detect-a-single-photon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief:<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found out that human eyes can detect single photons when in the dark. Human eyes become more sensitive when subjected to darkness, making our eyes capable of doing a task that even high-tech machines struggle to perform.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Rockefeller University and the University of Vienna recently discovered that human eyes can detect even the smallest units of light, called <a href=\"http:\/\/quatr.us\/physics\/light\/photon.htm\" target=\"_blank\">photons<\/a>, under super-dark conditions. This is the first time that experts were able to show this capability of the human eye.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-just-showed-that-human-eyes-can-detect-a-single-photon\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-just-showed-that-human-eyes-...le-photon\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief: Researchers found out that human eyes can detect single photons when in the dark. Human eyes become more sensitive when subjected to darkness, making our eyes capable of doing a task that even high-tech machines struggle to perform. Researchers from Rockefeller University and the University of Vienna recently discovered that human eyes can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58717,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569\/revisions\/58717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}