When it comes to optical illusions, sometimes the old ones are the best. This photo slipped me by when it was first doing the rounds online a few years ago, which means I had the delight of being ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where the brain misinterprets what the eyes perceive, creating a false or misleading impression of reality. This happens because the brain processes visual ...

Ah, optical illusions. It seems the internet's appetite for having its collective mind boggled by all manner of brain-twisters will never abate – but it isn't every day that we see illusions as ...

In 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture replaced the infamous Food Pyramid, with a simpler new icon, MyPlate. Designed to remind Americans about healthier eating habits, it suggests that half of ...

This trippy image appears to be a pigment enigma. Puzzle lovers are straining their brains over this optical illusion, which reportedly fools the viewer into thinking that they have gone colorblind.

Viewers are frazzling their brains over this seemingly innocent photograph of a gracefully stretching ballerina — which hides a highly sinister image. [Warning: Spoilers below] The illusion has ...

If you have never seen an optical illusion, it is an image that makes you see things differently than they actually are. Optical illusions trick your eyes into believing you see something that is not ...

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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 ...

An optical illusion is a type of visual phenomenon in which the illusion puzzles the eye and brain into perceiving something different from reality. These puzzles are simply designed to make confuse ...