Recently, a viral optical illusion challenge has captivated the Internet. It is making people scratch their heads in ...

Last year we covered the 'coffer' illusion, a visual riddling that was blowing/bending/frying/breaking the internet's collective mind. And like all the best illusions, it seems this one keeps on ...

Optical illusions reveal the fascinating ways our brains interpret visual information, often differing from reality. The ...

This work extends the concept of cloaking as a special form of illusion to the wider realm of illusion optics. We propose to use transformation optics to generate an illusion such that an arbitrary ...

In a peer-reviewed paper published in 2022 in the journal Science Advances, researchers from the University of Aberdeen and ...

A new optical illusion featuring repeated words has gone viral, challenging users to spot one odd word hidden among dozens of PENs. Think you can do it in under 10 seconds?

Optical Illusion: Take a look at the picture given below, the image is of a board full of the term 'pen'. However, among all the pens, there is one odd word that you have to spot in under 10 seconds!

One optical illusion going viral these days invites you to figure out a specific number in an image. You will be a true puzzle master if you manage to find out the solution in 10 seconds or less.

Look at this optical puzzle closely, it is designed to test your visual acuity. Your main task is to scrutinize the image and identify the irregularity. You are allotted a mere 4 seconds to uncover ...

Some of the best optical illusions make a still image look like it's moving but this is the first time I've encountered one you can actually draw. At the time of writing, the TikTok has got over ...

Optical illusion personality tests, like the Rubin vase, reveal insights into thinking styles. Seeing the vase first suggests a logical, analytical ap ...

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception.