This brain-frazzling optical illusion is enough to put your head into a spin. The purple-and-yellow image looks as though it’s both three-dimensional and moving but is in fact stationary and flat.

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 ...

These mental litmus tests will melt your mind. Puzzle lovers are straining their brains trying to solve a trio of baffling optical illusions, which reportedly reveal how the viewer’s mind works. A ...

Optical illusions are older than you think. The first optical illusions date back to 20,000 BC and took the form of cave sculptings. Nowadays they are found all over the place – on screens, in books ...

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.😵‍💫 🤯 We’ve ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Optical illusions often go viral on social media, but they've been around long before Twitter. From ...

A study of mice starts to unravel how the brain gets tricked by this kind of optical illusion, and it gives clues about how visual perception works. Optical illusions play on the brain's biases, ...

Everyone loves an optical illusion — even if they leave us completely stumped — and they're all around us in the natural world. From an underwater waterfall in the Indian Ocean to a surrealist scene ...

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