Featuring a blurry image of abstract yellows, oranges, purples and blues, this optical illusion appears pretty plain. It's ...

The image appears to show a black space filled with multi-coloured letters, and the word 'word' either suspended in mid-air ...

At first glance, a uniform array of the number '1' offers little intrigue, but delve deeper and you'll reveal a lone letter ...

This optical illusion challenges you to find the hidden number 623 among 628s in just 32 seconds. If you believe you are ...

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 ...

Six years ago, when filmmaker Masaya Ishikawa was using Adobe Illustrator to craft digital materials for a video production, he started seeing strange shapes on his screen that shouldn't have been ...

In the fast-paced world of digital distractions, a new kind of viral phenomenon has taken over our social feeds: the high-stakes visual perception challenge. As a long-time observer of how our brains ...

Medical imaging experts are adept at solving common optical illusions, according to new research. The research is the first to show that people can be trained to do better at solving visual illusions, ...

Research shows that a certain kind of visual illusion, neon color spreading, works on mice. The study is also the first to combine the use of two investigative techniques called electrophysiology and ...