All systems are go for the launch of IRIS -- a seven-foot spacecraft that will orbit Earth and study a small but mysterious region of the sun. You can watch IRIS take off for space Thursday evening, ...

It's a staple of film when an iris scanner is involved for some high-security needs for the bad guys to simply kill the person with clearance and cut out their eyeball to gain access. As farfetched as ...

In theory, an iris scanner can be hacked using an eyeball plucked from the victim. Now researchers have trained a machine-vision system to tell the difference between dead irises and live ones. The ...