Schizophrenia can be one of the most debilitating mental illnesses, but there may be a weird way to diagnose it using a ...

For the first time, research shows that a certain kind of visual illusion, neon color spreading, works on mice. The study is also the first to combine the use of two investigative techniques called ...

(WHTM) — There’s nothing like a bewildering optical illusion to get the weekend off to a good start. There are all kinds to choose from: the image that looks like one thing but also looks like another ...

We love a good optical illusion here at Creative Bloq. From squares that hide circles to ambidextrous baseball players, little mind-benders that play with how we perceive light and colour give us no ...

Forget the black and blue dress – this photo of an unassuming building is the latest image to demonstrate just how sophisticated our brains are at viewing the colours we see around us. The strange ...

Research shows that a certain kind of visual illusion, neon color spreading, works on mice. The study is also the first to combine the use of two investigative techniques called electrophysiology and ...

Every illusion has a backstage crew. New research shows the brain’s own “puppet strings”—special neurons that quietly tug our perception—help us see edges and shapes that don’t actually exist. When ...

He advanced the study of a millenniums-old mystery: why the moon appears larger on the horizon than it does high in the night sky. By Alex Traub Lloyd Kaufman, a leading figure in the study of a ...

Optical illusions play on the brain's biases, tricking it into perceiving images differently than how they really are. And now, in mice, scientists have harnessed an optical illusion to reveal hidden ...

Chief meteorologist Mark Dixon participates in color-changing chemistry experiments in July 18's Science Sunday.

This is a classic neon-color-spreading illusion and is not the same as the one used in these experiments. Chances are you can glance at this and initially see a light-blue circle in slight contrast to ...