20/20 lenses coat body of sea creature

Look closely enough at the arms of the brittlestar, a starfish relative, and you’d

A brittlestar. Aizenberg

The crystalline skeleton of a brittlestar forms an array of lenses. Aizenberg

see that those arms are looking right back at you. Each one is coated with perfect

lenses that focus light onto a nerve bundle, researchers report in the Aug.