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Lymphatic vessels beat faster as they fill with fluid through a chain of calcium signaling, though the first pressure sensor remains a mystery.

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This short report is an important study that visual acuity declines nonlinearly with cone dropout, while eye motion partially compensates by improving sampling from remaining cones. The method for ...