The Holstead hovered above the horizon when, slowly, her masts inverted before disappearing in an instant as if she had ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our eyes perceive something differently from reality, tricking the brain ...

Test your vision with this snowy village optical illusion! Spot the hidden bear in 12 seconds. A fun IQ challenge to sharpen ...

There are three main types of optical illusion: literal, cognitive, and physiological. Literal illusions are the result of combining smaller images to create one larger image. These are often created ...

These celestial wonders can tell us a lot about the state of the atmosphere at home on Earth as well as on other planets.

Optical tweezers, first demonstrated in the 1980s and awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, use highly focused beams of ...

The biggest salt flat on Earth is considered by many to be the world’s largest natural mirror. A team of scientists wondered ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

Every once in a while, you may look up toward the sun and see strange bright lights on either side of it. Or perhaps you'll be sitting in an aircraft, looking out the window at its shadow, and see a ...

Quantum computers will need large numbers of qubits to tackle challenging problems in physics, chemistry, and beyond. Unlike ...

I GREW up hearing about the legendary San Miguel Oktoberfest—stories of endless beer, powerhouse bands, and music that ...

NIST made use of its Fundamentals of Laser-Matter Interaction testbed, or FLaMI, a laboratory 3D printing platform designed ...