Heads or tails? New research reveals that if you aren’t the one to flip it, it might still feel unfair, despite being perfectly random. A coin flip is about as fair as it gets. Its two sides with ...

Studies show that your brain doesn’t perceive the world exactly as it is. Instead, it “fills in gaps in perception.” The first layer of your brain’s primary visual cortex helps to decide what reality ...

Mustafa Suleyman is not your average big tech executive. He dropped out of Oxford university as an undergrad to create the Muslim Youth Helpline, before teaming up with friends to cofound DeepMind, a ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Octopuses, they’re just like us: New research suggests the eight-armed cephalopods are also fooled by a version of the rubber hand trick. In humans, this illusion involves covering a person’s hand so ...

For a few years my commute from Virginia to my job in Maryland was two hours each way, so I sometimes spent the night. Since I grew up around horses and had nothing better to do, I occasionally went ...

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception. By Katrina Miller Take a look at this video of a waiting ...

An illusion that warps our perception of time – altering our recollection of events to make it seem as if they occurred further into the past – may force a rethink of our existing theories of memory.

For most of us, time feels like one of life’s biggest certainties. We wake up, go about our day, watch the clock move forward, and assume time is ticking away in a steady, reliable flow from past to ...

A video showing an unexpected optical illusion captured in a parking lot in Florida has gone viral on TikTok. The clip was shared by @amymcgrif and has garnered 8.3 million views since it was posted ...

Discusses the properties and types of triangles, explaining that a triangle is a closed figure with three sides and angles. It categorizes triangles into equilateral, isosceles, scalene, obtuse, right ...