The synesthesia many people are aware of is where words are experienced as colors. There are arguably much stranger versions ...

Animals may inhabit the same world as us, but new research shows how their perceptions of what is around them differs, says ...

An exhibit featuring optical illusions and how they mess with your head is set to open at Orlando Science Center on Sunday. “Phenomena: The Exhibition” delves into the scientific explanations of why ...

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 ...

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a longstanding, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical physics ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — Scientists have been working to understand how we sense the world around us. These findings will be presented at Neuroscience 2025, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and ...

When two tones of slightly different frequencies are played in separate ears simultaneously (usually through headphones), the human brain perceives the creation of a new, third tone, whose frequency ...