What do you do when you're stuck in lockdown, but you also have insatiably itchy feet and the essence of travel running ...

During the winter months, Museum of Illusions Salt Lake City introduced new elements to their exhibits for the holidays.

Optical illusions are older than you think. The first optical illusions date back to 20,000 BC and took the form of cave sculptings. Nowadays they are found all over the place – on screens, in books ...

Illusions teach us how our brain constructs a three-dimensional reality using 2-D images. Optical illusions are fun, but they can also teach us a lot about how our brains work. In particular, how our ...

You look at an image of a black circle on a grid of circular dots. It resembles a hole burned into a piece of white mesh material, although it’s actually a flat, stationary image on a screen or piece ...

This freaky optical illusion makes people's faces appear hideously distorted -- but some brains are able to unscramble the visual cues. TikTok/stevepsychology/ It’s like putting on ugly goggles.

How optical illusions work has been long-debated among scientists and philosophers, who wonder whether these illusions stem from neural processing in the eye or involve higher-level cognitive ...

Visual illusions remind us that we are not passive decoders of reality but active interpreters. Our eyes capture information from the environment, but our brain can play tricks on us. Perception doesn ...

It can be any little thing which goes viral nowadays. Whether it's an innocent-looking photo of a woman sitting in a chair or a grandma 'freaking out' after looking at snaps of her daughter's little ...

Most people use the terms “optical illusion” and “visual illusion” interchangeably, much like “fluid” and “liquid” or “sofa” and “couch” are synonyms. At first glance, this might be seemingly pedantic ...