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 sometimes ask what the meaning of life is, because we experience our daily routines as pointless and repetitive. If we feel listless and apathetic, life often seems to us devoid of purpose. We may ...

Optical illusions are not merely tricks or viral brain teasers, they reveal the curious disconnect between what we see and what our brain interprets. A flat drawing might come across as ...