Oftentimes, a picture is taken that is so visually baffling that the internet is left scratching its collective head to make sense of what it actually depicts. This is known as an optical illusion— ...

Think of the Museum of Illusions at the Mall of America as a way to refresh your social media profiles. Snap selfies in front of colorful, trippy photos at this "edutainment" attraction, which ...

Why is that ring seemingly suspended in air? How did those people get from there to there? To watch Antonio Díaz perform many of his illusions in El Mago Pop on Broadway (Ethel Barrymore Theatre, to ...

A bizarre optical illusion that appears to show a girl half-sunk into a concrete path has social media users baffled. The image posted on Reddit had users scratching their heads trying to figure out ...

It can be any little thing which goes viral nowadays. Whether it's an innocent-looking photo of a woman sitting in a chair or a grandma 'freaking out' after looking at snaps of her daughter's little ...

Neuroscientist David Eagleman talks about illusions that make the moving picture possible. Movies. Video games. YouTube videos. All of them work because we accidentally figured out a way to fool your ...

FOR all the fun we have with them, illusions do serious work in illuminating how our brains work, and in particular how perception works. They may also help us understand how consciousness developed, ...