Our eyes can frequently play tricks on us, but scientists have discovered that some artificial intelligence can fall for the ...

And that could mean the rotating snakes illusion is finally explained.

Five years ago we published an optical illusion that millions of you were completely bamboozled by, and today I've found a brand-new version of that illusion. Of course, I'm referring to the rotating ...

It’ll spin your head right round, right round. This head-spinning optical illusion will have you second guessing your own sanity. It shows two rotating rings made up of six ovals. One is all black ...

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 ...

We built them to be cold, calculating, and immune to the subjective flaws of the biological mind. Yet, when shown a specific ...

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Puzzle lovers are frazzling their noodles over this physics-defying optical illusion, in which stationery cubes appear to be spinning. The trick first went viral on Twitter in 2020 — whereupon it ...

A grayscale ballerina who appears to be moving. A human who can fit in a doll box. A black-and-white prism that appears to change shape when... Optical illusions are a brain feature, not a bug. Here's ...

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 ...

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 ...