What’s the colour of the laptop or mobile screen in front of you? Is it white? What if we tell you that it's not really white? Yes, that’s right. You are being fooled into thinking that you’re seeing ...

At first glance, it’s just a wooden ladder placed neatly on a flight of steps. But stare longer, and something begins to feel, a little off. Is the ladder resting flat on the stairs, or is it somehow ...

A couple of years ago an optical illusion came along and almost broke our site. Over three million people read an article about the most dizzying illusion ever to grace our screens – the rotating ...

Visual illusions of motion are a major source of interest in the vision research community. Explaining how a still image can produce an illusory perception of motion is important for a more complete ...