This post explains some of the common causes of excessive blinking in kids and its complications, treatment, and prevention. Blinking is an involuntary reflex that lubricates the eyes and keeps ...

Over the past eight decades, several studies have suggested that spontaneous eye blinking not only fulfils biological functions, but also plays an important cognitive role. University of Sheffield ...

Blepharospasm is a condition where the muscles around the eyelids develop an involuntary spasm, causing the lids to twitch, flutter or blink uncontrollably. In severe cases, sufferers may be unable to ...

Robert Kearns, PhD (CIT '64), attributed his invention of the intermittent windshield wiper to a wedding night accident: As he was opening a champagne bottle in his hotel room, the cork flew off and ...