A woman has described the "breath-taking" experience of seeing a rare ghostly shadow phenomenon while out walking. A Brocken ...

Medical imaging experts are adept at solving common optical illusions, according to new research. The research is the first to show that people can be trained to do better at solving visual illusions, ...

Here the authors demonstrate a temporal Vernier caliper for arbitrary waveform synthesis with a sampling rate over 1 TSa/s. These results, which surpass current electronic systems by an order of ...

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In this mindboggling project, you will make an Optical Illusion Toy. By making this optical illusion toy, you will learn, in a fun way, about how our eyes and brain make sense of our world. Students ...

From Disney World to the smartphone in your pocket, fingerprint scanners have become commonplace these days. Even budget phones sport the tech, sometimes alongside other biometric unlocking ...

Optometry Australia revealed short-sightedness is set to affect 50 per cent of the world’s population by 2050, with data from the organisation finding 80 per cent of Aussies have difficulty ...

Optical illusions are fascinating visual phenomena that trick the brain into seeing something that isn’t actually there or perceiving an image differently than reality. These illusions play with ...

A passenger ship in dazzle camouflage. © Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons During World War I, navies ...

Nvidia to use optical tech in networking chips, not GPUs Copper cables currently more reliable than optical connections Nvidia has backed startups working on co-packaged optics for AI chips SAN ...

Optical illusions are great fun, and they fool virtually everyone. But have you ever wondered if you could train yourself to unsee these illusions? Our latest research suggests that you can.