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 ...

Optical illusions are visual tricks that make your brain see something different from reality. They happen when the brain misinterprets information received from the eyes. Sometimes, an object may ...

There is more to this tiny paper house than meets the eye. When three balls are placed on the roof and do not roll down the sides, one would think the creator has found a way to defy both geometry and ...

There is a film that Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic feels like it is riffing on so explicitly that it becomes almost hilarious the more it goes on. To say what that specific film is would mean toeing too ...

There’s only one explanation for how this is possible: Manipulation performer Ouka must have somehow turned off gravity. These incredible illusions are performed on a number of objects including the 8 ...

An optical illusion has baffled viewers who can't seem to come to an agreement about what it shows. In the image, a hypnotic mass of black swirls conceals a set of numbers hidden in its centre which ...

With this brain-teaser you are challenged to spot the misspelt version of the word “ACE”. Hidden within this black and yellow puzzle is the imposter word but locating it may be harder than you think.

Presenting a suggestion of heaviness to a person in a hypnotic trance (e.g., "your arm is getting heavier and heavier") tends to result in a corresponding change in the person's body position (e.g., ...

For all of our accomplishments, humans are simple creatures. We may have decoded our own genome and invented materials to strike golf balls over 300 yards, but at the end of the day, a single pretty ...