See this year's winning optical illusions and learn how they make the brain perceive things that are not reality.

Illusions like these mess with the brain's visual processing system, making viewers see things that aren't there in reality. | Credit: Eva Almqvist via Getty Images Optical illusions play tricks on ...

Architects and artists have clever ways of confusing your eyes and creating optical illusions with their building designs.

Nature has a mischievous side, and sometimes it loves to play tricks on our eyes. The world is full of illusions that look too strange to be real, yet they´re all natural or naturally captured. These ...

A bizarre optical illusion tricks your brain into seeing colours in a black and white spinning disk.

Nature can be a trickster with its mixed bag of optical tricks. If you don’t pay attention you can unbeknownst to yourself, wander down all kinds of crazy paths that can render you completely lost. So ...

It's all about timing. A new internet challenge is taking the virtual world by storm, and luckily, this time no one needs to injure themselves. We've seen idiotic challenges such as the hot water ...

Artists and scientists have been creating optical illusions for centuries. Here are some mind-bending examples that prove you can't always trust what your eyes are telling you.