Like most artists, Jess Polanshek has been drawing since early in her life — “since I could pick up a crayon,” she says. But not all child artists develop an intense devotion to a particular subject ...

An optical illusion is a fascinating visual trick that deceives the brain into seeing something different from reality. These illusions occur when the information our eyes send to the brain is ...

“STUDY any animal, even the most common, carefully, and you will find out something that has hitherto escaped notice.” Repeatedly did this sentence spring to mind as we read the pages of this ...