Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Science has a simple and incredible trick that will help you lose weight. The idea, it seems, is to make portions appear bigger because this leads people to ...

So I've read in more than a few places that color doesn't exist outside our heads, it's just wavelengths of light. That our brains are the things that make color, same with sound (which is just ...

Well, it looks like we're never, ever escaping the tyranny of The Dress — but it's OK, because optical illusions are cool. Not only that, but they can teach us a ton about ourselves, too. Case in ...

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The internet is once again losing its mind over color confusion. Five years ago, people were arguing whether a dress was blue and black or white and gold. Now they’re debating over a different product ...

Here's a visual illusion that catches the brain in the act of making up color. Arrange a set of black spokes radiating from a ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

It’s no secret that putting various colors together makes them look different. Put off-white next to black, and it looks completely bright. But did you know that, with the Munker Illusion, you can ...

Via my evil twin Richard Wiseman comes one of the best color optical illusions I have ever seen. The original was apparently posted on Buzzhunt Akiyoshi Kitaoka’s incredible optical illusion website: ...

This week the first wave of research from scientific journals has begun to be published; Current Biology has posted a trio of papers by three different prominent competing color vision labs, each ...

Perception researchers have long known about the structural and functional features that differentiate our central vision from our peripheral vision. The central (or foveal) region of our retinas are ...