Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them ...

The Museum of Illusions isn’t your typical Seattle attraction where you look at things behind velvet ropes and whisper ...

An intimate look at Boris Acket’s nomadic studio practice and the kinetic systems of the recent Fred again.. tour, all ...

From butterflies to peacocks, bold circular "eyespots" are among nature's most eye-catching patterns. But why do they appear ...

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're ...

The benefits of kinesiology tape, the colorful tape stretched across the limbs of seemingly every athlete these days, may be more in the mind than in the muscles. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled. Researchers at TUM have succeeded in observing the visual information flow ...

A study assesses whether perceiving a partner’s effort leads to greater engagement of executive control mechanisms to maintain focus on a task. The results revealed that noticing the commitment of ...

Contour-induced afterimages constitute an important class of chromatic visual illusions, in which an illusory color percept emerges post-exposure to a chromatic field. Their striking feature is dual ...

This video is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Have you ever thought about how your body turns ...

Sweeney is a contributor for TIME. Sweeney is a contributor for TIME. You might associate compression socks with your grandparents or a hospital setting. But the stockings have become a trendy travel ...