A new optical illusion, the 'expanding hole,' tricks the brain and reflexes, causing pupil dilation as if entering a dark space. A study reveals that 86% of people perceive the illusion, with black ...

After building Indiana Fever from ground up, Kelly Krauskopf left to join Pacers. But she returned this year, tasked with ...

A groundbreaking study from Flinders University reveals that it's not just making eye contact that matters, but precisely when and how you do it. By studying interactions between humans and virtual ...

Certain patterns of brain activity during awakening correlate with a lower likelihood of the bleary-eyed state called ‘sleep ...

Sometimes, we just wish our partner knew what we were thinking. Now, experts have pinpointed the most effective way to signal a request - without uttering a word.

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

Shading brings 3D forms to life, beautifully carving out the shape of objects around us. Despite the importance of shading ...

To figure out if there’s a grain of truth to all these anecdotes, a team of German scientists at the Hamburg University, led ...

The depth to which light effectively penetrates biological tissues is still a matter of debate in photomedicine. The work compares two approaches to evaluate the depth, based, respectively, on the ...

A cyclist lost in Arizona’s remote Virgin Mountains was rescued after a deputy spotted a moving light. Found in good health, his bike remains missing: cops.

In 1996, a 3-year-old boy tumbled 24 feet into a gorilla enclosure at an Illinois zoo. Then, a Western Lowland Gorilla named Binti Jua rescued him.