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Test your sharp eyes with a quick optical illusion challenge! Spot a hidden inverted 68 among inverted 63s in just six seconds. This puzzle tests your ...

Loss of the glutamate transporters EAAT5b and EAAT7 disrupts wavelength-specific visual processing and UV-dependent prey detection in zebrafish, revealing their key roles in modulating light ...

A new discovery has unraveled why we sometimes see colors that aren't there. The phenomenon of "color afterimages" is when ...

Test your sharp vision with a tricky optical illusion. Find the hidden inverted '68' within a grid of inverted '89s'. You have just eight seconds. Thi ...

People were left in fits of laughter after seeing a very cheeky optical illusion in this innocent-looking image of some ...

For most of us, these illusions are harmless. But my new research, published in Perception, suggests people with visual snow ...

Using AI, you enter text. The text gets converted into numbers that are tokens. What if we used images of text instead of pure text. A clever idea. An AI Insider scoop.

Using simulations, robots, and live fish, scientists at EPFL and Duke University have replicated the neural circuitry that ...

Researchers create a photochromic fluorescent system that performs optical neural computing and visual output in one step, cutting power use and complexity.