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 ...

A head-scratching optical illusion challenges the perception of color and how the brain plays tricks on us. In an image created by the UK contact lens vendor Lenstore, a series of lilac letters ...

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 ...

In the past few years, the internet has given us The Dress, a photo of a mysterious missing leg, and this disorienting floor design. If you're still hungry for more, INSIDER rounded up a mix of ...

How optical illusions work has been long-debated among scientists and philosophers, who wonder whether these illusions stem from neural processing in the eye or involve higher-level cognitive ...

Optical illusions are a tricky yet fun way to exercise the brain. The puzzles are often designed in a way that the person solving them is required to use logic and think outside the box. Amid the buzz ...