An optical illusion takes advantage of the way your brain processes visual information to trick you into seeing something that isn’t there.
Shown below: Are the central squares the same colour?
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Cruise missile
A satellite taking pictures for Google Maps managed to catch a cruise missile overland during a test flight:
Exploded iPod
Artist Billy Chasen cast his iPod in a block of resin, and it still works!
Top 10 Discoveries of 2007
TIME magazine has released its annual list of the Top 10 Scientific Discoveries.
Smallest advent calendar
A bit late, obviously …
A group of German scientists have created the world’s smallest advent calendar, thinner than a human hair, by using an electron microscope to etch lines in a sheet of plastic.
