(Medical Xpress) -- Our interpretation of the world around us may have more in common with the impossible staircase illusion than it does the real world, according to research published today in the ...

A folly in a Rotterdam suburb draws on residents’ complex relationship with the city. NEXT designed The Elastic Perspective, a staircase based on the Möbius strip. “The idea of the impossible stair ...

The Elastic Perspective is more art installation than useful staircase. Located on a grassy hill in Carnisselande, a Rotterdam suburb, the walkway is built from rusty steel in a lazy loop that drapes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An impossible object is something that looks realistic when drawn but can't exist in real life. Dutch artist M. C. Escher is ...

Optical illusions are images that play tricks on our eyes and brain. They are designed in a way that makes us see things differently from what actually exists. Sometimes, an illusion hides a shape, ...

This mind-bending image looks like something out of Inception, but in fact it’s a view of fields in the south Khartoum area of Sudan. How the hell do they grow anything on that? Just joking, of course ...