Excuses can get very elaborate: "I know I'm look at another's exam, even though I'm supposed to keep my eyes on my own paper, but that's not cheating because I'm just checking my answers, not copying.

While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience that included visitors from Japan, she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed.

Japanese listeners sometimes closed their eyes to enhance concentration

Why do Japanese listeners sometimes close their eyes while listening to a speech?

For instance, some people believe that wearing glasses too soon weakens the eyes.

But there is no evidence to show that the structure of eyes is changed by wearing glasses at a young age

Studies show that for adults there is no danger, but children can develop loss of vision if they have glasses inappropriate for their eyes.

Too little light makes the eyes work harder, so they do get tired and strained

Another myth about eyes is that they can be replaced, or transferred from one person to another.

It will gradually weaken the eyes of adults

"A well-displayed meal is enhanced one hundred percent in my eyes," he later wrote in one of his cook books.

As if you needed another reason to hate the gym, it now turns out that exercise can exhaust not only your muscles, but also your eyes.

It was not known, however, whether central fatigue might also affect motor systems not directly involved in the exercise itself, such as those that move the eyes.

While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience that included visitors from Japan, she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed.

Japanese listeners sometimes closed their eyes to enhance concentration

Why do Japanese listeners sometimes close their eyes while listening to a speech?

We first see ourselves through the eyes of others, so their messages form important foundations of our self-concepts.

And while the Portuguese took part in the trade, ferrying nuts down the coast along with other goods, by 1620, when English explorer Richard Jobson made his way up the Gambia, the nuts were still peculiar to his eyes.

But, as the human study suggests, another reason for dolphins keeping their eyes open during sleep is that they can look out for predators while asleep.

Efforts like painting eyes on cow butts may seem crazy at first, but they could make actual headway in the fight for conservation.

Every summer when I top up my selection of summer outfits from the department stores, my eyes would nearly pop out of my head.

They have painted half of the cows with eyes and left the other half as normal.

In his eyes, however, that doesn't necessarily mean that innovation has stopped.

In what's probably the craziest headline I've ever written, I've reported that advances in livestock protection are happening with scientists painting eyes on the butts of cows.

Out of curiosity, I paid a visit to Sainz Breeze as I put my hand into a packet of crickets with their tiny eyes and legs.

Probing the rock pools of a local beach or practising French on a language exchange can fire children's passions, boost their skills and open their eyes to life's possibilities.

Researchers in Australia have been devising and testing a method of trickery to make lions think they are being watched by the painted eyes on cow butts.

The results: Teens who played the Iowa Gambling Task under the eyes of fellow adolescents engaged in more exploratory behavior, learned faster from both positive and negative outcomes, and achieved better performance on the task than those who played in s

The water is so corrosive that it can burn the skin and eyes of unadapted animals.

This conversational robot companion has cameras in its eyes, which allow it to track patients and use appropriate facial expressions and body language in its interactions.