At about 14,000 feet in Ladakh, Magnetic Hill offers a puzzling visual effect: vehicles seem to move uphill in neutral. Know ...

A small pilot study found that a high dose of psilocybin strengthened an illusion in which a striped pattern looks fainter ...

While new optical illusions go viral all the time, here are some of the most famous illusions that have kept us scratching our heads for years.

In the first century B.C.E., Vitruvius wrote that the Acropolis’ largest temple was horizontally bowed so that it didn't seem to sag, and that explanation persisted for millennia. New research suggest ...

The Illusion Divide: When exposed to a motion aftereffect, human observers perceive a stationary object as shifted in the opposite direction. Primate inferior temporal (IT) cortex neurons mirrored ...

Discover an easy and creative outdoor videography hack using a simple round mirror and your smartphone camera settings to ...

A few years ago, the internet was going bonkers for optical illusions, from the infamous dress to a cat in the desert. Now there’s a new kind of illusion in town. It will make you see shimmering rays ...

Have you ever looked at the nighttime horizon and gasped at the sight of a spectacularly large moonrise? Typically, if you glance up at the sky hours later, the Moon will seem to have shrunk. Dubbed ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...