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 ...

October 2, 2015 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google No matter what anyone says about performing magic tricks, everyone’s jaws drop when they see an amazing illusion ...

A brand new optical illusion tricks the majority of people into thinking that a dark "black hole" region at the center of a stationary image is rapidly expanding, as if the observer were moving toward ...

Have you ever looked at an image and doubted what your eyes were telling you? Well, you are not the only one because such optical illusions commonly take place when your brain wrongly interprets what ...

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception. By Katrina Miller Take a look at this video of a waiting ...

When a human looks at a distant skyscraper, it appears small to the eye. It’s a visual illusion, and we use other contextual information to know the building is actually tall. Our new study shows, for ...