This trippy image appears to be a pigment enigma. Puzzle lovers are straining their brains over this optical illusion, which reportedly fools the viewer into thinking that they have gone colorblind.

From the cigar nestled in the brickwork to 'The Dress', many optical illusions have left viewers around the world baffled over the years. But the latest illusion is arguably one of the most bizarre ...

Puzzle lovers are straining their brains over this optical illusion, which reportedly fools the viewer into thinking that they have gone colorblind. In the image, created by Japanese psychologist ...

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 ...

Optical illusions are hugely popular on TikTok, and it feels like every week a new video goes viral on the app. From mind-bending mirror tricks to classic op-art puzzles, it's clear that optical ...

When Dimitris Papailiopoulos first asked ChatGPT to interpret colors in images, he was thinking about “the dress”—the notoriously confusing optical-illusion photograph that took the Internet by storm ...

How optical illusions work has been long-debated among scientists and philosophers, who wonder whether these illusions stem from neural processing in the eye or involve higher-level cognitive ...

Optical illusions play on the brain's biases, tricking it into perceiving images differently than how they really are. And now, in mice, scientists have harnessed an optical illusion to reveal hidden ...