New research has analyzed human reactions to several optical illusions in which a black mass appears to expand before someone’s very eyes, the New York Times reported. These kinds of static images ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon in which the brain interprets images differently from how they appear. These illusions occur due to the way our eyes and brain process light, colour, ...

Psychologists used illusions that mimic darkness and sunlight to see how viewers’ eyes reacted. Most people experienced the sense of movement into darkness and their pupils dilated. Their pupils ...

In the 2000 science fiction film Pitch Black (now streaming on Peacock!), the prisoner Richard B. Riddick, is being escorted on a small spaceship which crash lands on an alien planet. Despite having ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The French street artist JR has unveiled perhaps his most complex Italian trompe l’oeil ...

A driver in Milwaukee encountered a scary sight while passing through a tunnel late at night – or so he thought. An optical illusion convinced Jordan Mota that the road was split by an abyss that he ...

Driving in tunnels is not that much of a stressful experience for most people but some drivers in the US had a few baffling minutes after witnessing an optical illusion on an onramp inside a tunnel, ...

Researchers found an optical illusion triggers the pupils to dilate as if light were dimming. It provides clues about how the brain processes images. The image is by Japanese researcher Akiyoshi ...

The French street artist JR has unveiled perhaps his most complex Italian trompe l’oeil illusion piece yet, turning a square outside Milan’s Stazione Centrale railway station into a temporary ...