This trippy image appears to be a pigment enigma. Puzzle lovers are straining their brains over this optical illusion, which reportedly fools the viewer into thinking that they have gone colorblind.

Kate Bacon has a bachelor's degree in integrative physiology. The science whiz shared that the color cyan is rarely seen because most screens can't display it. One way to see true cyan is to use the ...

This color illusion works by exploiting how your visual system handles color memory — stare at an image long enough and your retinal cells get fatigued, causing you to see phantom colors in a ...

So I've read in more than a few places that color doesn't exist outside our heads, it's just wavelengths of light. That our brains are the things that make color, same with sound (which is just ...

While new optical illusions go viral all the time, here are some of the most famous illusions that have kept us scratching our heads for years.

Illusions like these mess with the brain's visual processing system, making viewers see things that aren't there in reality. | Credit: Eva Almqvist via Getty Images Optical illusions play tricks on ...

Research shows that a certain kind of visual illusion, neon color spreading, works on mice. The study is also the first to combine the use of two investigative techniques called electrophysiology and ...