Are our senses there to provide us with the most complete representation of the world, or do they serve our survival? For a long time, the former was the dominant view in neuroscience. "Was" is the ...
The film Black Swan (2010) is the journey of a dancer seeking perfection. However, this leads her to dance a downward spiral, in which reality becomes increasingly distorted. The concept of reality is ...
Although humans' visual perception of the world appears complete, our eyes contain a visual blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the retina. Scientists are still uncertain whether the brain ...
The passage of time was altered for many people during the COVID-19 pandemic, ranging from difficulty in keeping track of days of the week to feeling that the hours themselves rushed by or slowed down ...
Photo illustrates the complex curve in the windscreen of an R-22. Robinson designed an optional windshield made from polycarbonate and tested to resist a 2.2 lb. bird strike at 90 kts. Credit: ...
Imagine if every time you saw a face, it appeared distorted. Well, for those who have a very rare condition known as prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), which causes facial features to appear distorted, that ...
A 58-year-old man with a rare medical condition sees faces normally on screens and paper, but in person, they take on a demonic quality. The patient has a unique case of prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), a ...
The Netflix documentary Unknown Number: The High School Catfish explores the case of two thirteen-year-olds, Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenny, who received thousands of anonymous, harassing messages ...