What if you could climb a staircase that never truly takes you anywhere? Step after step, effort after effort, yet you remain exactly where you started. This is the hypnotic paradox behind the Escher ...

Early dating often involves presenting a composed front, masking underlying nervousness. This optical illusion test reveals how you typically manage impressions when starting a relationship. Whether ...

Dividend investors are often misled by surface-level metrics that lead them to believe they are getting something that they really are not. I uncover four of the most dangerous of these optical ...

It's not just humans who notice optical illusions; certain animals do too, and they often use it to their advantage. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Illusions mess with our brains all the time – not in a harmful way, but creatively. What we think we’re seeing often isn’t what’s actually there. Take the Ebbinghaus illusion, for example: you look at ...

Dr Maria Santacà is a behavioral biologist who specializes in the study of animal cognition and perception. Her research at the Department of Behavioral & Cognitive Biology of the University of Vienna ...

Optical illusions occur naturally in different habitats and conditions across the world. Cloud formations can sometimes make it seem like there's an ocean or a UFO in the sky. Whether it is salt flats ...

Optical illusions play tricks on your brain and can make you see things that aren't really there, from static images swirling around the page to images that stay with you even after you look away.

BERKELEY, Calif. — Your brain does more than record what your eyes see. It fills in the gaps, using past experiences to make sense of incomplete information. A new study by scientists at the ...

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 ...

Have you ever looked at something, only to realize it was something completely different? That’s the power of optical illusions: they trick our brain using color, light, and patterns. ‍ 勞 We’ve ...

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 ...