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Optical illusions are becoming more and more popular on the internet. Thousands of people have made optical illusions their favourite pastime because of the game's simplicity and directness. The ...

Before jumping on in we have one question on our minds: what is an optical illusion? What is an optical illusion? Optical illusions are visuals that tend to be deceptive to the eye and brain. This is ...

A grayscale ballerina who appears to be moving. A human who can fit in a doll box. A black-and-white prism which appear to change shape when viewed from three different directions. Those are the top ...

Kids love being tricked. I know this because over 1,000 UK schoolchildren just voted a book about optical illusions as the winner of this year's Royal Society Young People's Book Prize for science.

An illusion is defined as a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses. Pittsburgh’s newly opened Museum of Illusions uses a mixture of technology and classic ...

Why people perceive motion in some static images has mystified not only those who view these optical illusions but neuroscientists who have tried to explain the phenomenon. Now Yale neuroscientists ...

Of all the elaborate illusions and wall-to-wall effects performed in the stage show “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” the trickiest one is a signature visual of the “Stranger Things” universe: the ...

The world is not as it seems — and not just because of COVID. Your brain is continually playing around with your sense of reality. But you may only notice this when you get caught out by a magic trick ...

When we dug something in the ‘90s, we went next level with it. We didn’t just like a thing; we liked the everloving heck out of things with a single-minded obsession (until the next trendy thing came ...

As per the US National Eye Institute, an optical illusion is something that plays tricks on your vision. It teaches us how our eyes and brain work together to see a two-dimensional image. We live in a ...