In 1848, two young sisters in upstate New York discovered that mysterious rapping sounds could convince people they were ...

In a viral clip, posted by the New Zealand-based podcast The Morning Shift, you can hear a strange repetitive sound being ...

A Chinese mushroom causes hallucinations of tiny people within real environmental backgrounds. This phenomenon raises questions about perception, memory, and reality.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In their book Instructional Illusions, Paul Kirschner, Carl Hendrick and Jim Heal argue that ...

Long ago, back when twirling things was both an entertaining diversion and a serious mode of scientific inquiry, several researchers noticed an odd optical illusion. Spinning a white disk with a ...

Our pick of the best optical illusions of all time will leave you amazed and confused in equal measure.

Last August Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt noticed something strange while he was looking at a flight map on his phone. As his eye traced the plane’s flight path, he noticed that the line looked purple, ...

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 ...

Inspired by owls and their amazing ability to find their prey by hearing alone, my team decided to test how good humans are at discerning sounds. We were surprised to find just how bad we are. As our ...