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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 ...

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

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

Even when you know how an optical illusion works, it can be hard to convince your senses that what you're seeing isn't real. The best way to demystify an illusion isn't necessarily to read about ...

Bright background light can do more than clutter a quantum experiment. It can wash out the very features that make quantum systems useful in the first place. That is the problem a team at the Institut ...

Jax Brewery, a castlelike building at the edge of the French Quarter, has long been home to a selection of tourist-targeted shops and cafes. Now it includes a new attraction, The Museum of Illusions ...

The art of optical illusion has been an integral part of painting since antiquity when it was used as a yardstick by which to judge an artist's level of mastery. This book presents a fascinating ...