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Optical illusions are visual tricks that make your brain see something different from reality. They happen when the brain misinterprets information received from the eyes. Sometimes, an object may ...

A bizarre trick of the eye creating the illusion of an impossibly tiny waist on a Paris Olympics swimmer went viral, the second moment of the games that made viewers at home do a double-take. A video ...

A Filipina teenager's optical illusion video on TikTok has fellow users trying to figure out how she performed the trick. The ...

While new optical illusions go viral all the time, here are some of the most famous illusions that have kept us scratching our heads for years.

An optical illusion is dividing the internet over whether the picture is of pink slime or three forks laid out on a hot pink dish towel — and it’s making people’s brains hurt. Deemed as the “black and ...

The video above was recently posted on Twitter by Daniel Quintana, a scientist at the University of Olso in Norway, with the caption "Rabbits love getting stroked on their nose." So is it a bird? Or ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A video of a pregnant woman's baby bump that creates a surprising optical illusion has gone viral on Instagram. In the ...

Bobby Moore challenges you to solve an optical illusion about the spinning direction of a horse.

Two NASA astronauts had some fun during the ISS' capture of a robotic cargo spacecraft on April 13, pretending to hold onto ...