We love a nice optical illusion (if you hadn't noticed), and happily the internet is full of people creating little gems to trick our eyes. Anyone wanting to create their own won't want to miss this ...

Optical illusions come in all forms, from mind-melting artwork to photography trickery, but there's one style that never fails to perplex the internet – the humble colour illusion. Fooling the brain ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where the brain misinterprets what the eyes see. Instead of perceiving an image ...

Most people use the terms “optical illusion” and “visual illusion” interchangeably. “That’s a pet peeve of mine,” says Pascal Wallisch, a neuroscientist and psychology professor at New York University ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our perception of thinking about an image differs from objective reality. This image is seen as an artistic forest scene designed as a hidden-object or ...

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 ...

This mind-bending optical illusion is bound hurt your eyes and brain – can you see all the dots at the same time? The strange visual puzzle is frazzling people’s brains as it goes viral across social ...

If you want to mesmerize your audience by playing with magic, then you can rely on our list of 10 easiest simple illusion tricks to learn for beginners. Who doesn’t like magic, right? It’s fun, ...

From colour-changing fire trucks to 'The Dress', many optical illusions have baffled the internet over the years. Now, a scientist from Harvard Medical School has discovered an illusion that might be ...