Being susceptible to visual illusions is part and parcel of life not just for humans, but many other species – including bees.
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Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction when it comes to the magicians of the Victorian era.
People have always been intrigued by illusions, but only in the last century have they been able to teach us about the workings of the brain.
To learn about how humans, animals and insects experience vision illusions, we had to find a way to ask bees what they saw.
Pretty much all of our perception is an illusion, whether we’re walking down the street or attempting to decode the latest card trick.
In 1959, John Howard Griffin, a white American writer, underwent medical treatments to change his skin appearance and present himself as a black man. He then traveled through the segregated US south to…
Science has a simple and incredible trick that will help you lose weight. The idea, it seems, is to make portions appear bigger because this leads people to serve and eat less. While many such fat-fighting…
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