Every Easter morning, Donna Lee makes pierogis. The Polish pastry, made from frying a special dough, has become a beloved part of the family tradition. But Easter 2005 brought something very ...

During a friend's watch party for the 2024 Summer Olympics, my gaze diverted momentarily from the sports spectacle to the wood console the TV stood on. I wasn't admiring the handiwork; rather I ...

Many people have experienced pareidolia without realizing it. It's the phenomenon where the brain sees or hears something of significance in a random picture or pattern. A common example is seeing ...

You may be seeing faces in clouds, toast, or cars—and it turns out your brain is wired to notice them. A fascinating new study shows how our attention is hijacked not just by real faces, but by ...

When you look at clouds, tree bark, or the front of a car, do you sometimes see a face staring back at you? That's "face pareidolia" and it is a perfectly normal illusion where our brains spot faces ...

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. What happens when imagination meets perception, and ordinary objects come alive? We explore the science of pareidolia. Summary: Our minds are wired to ...

Two eyes and a mouth—it doesn’t take much for our brains to construct a face—or in this case, two faces looking back at us. Source: Paul Hanaoka/Unsplash Many people have described looking at their ...

What do you see here? A moss-covered tree trunk, yes, but take a closer look. Your brain's ability to find familiar objects, such as a face or body part, in random stimuli has a name: pareidolia. (For ...

What Is Demon Face Syndrome? Demon face syndrome, or prosopometamorphopsia, is a rare brain disorder that affects how a person sees faces. If you have this condition, other people’s features might ...

A stranger’s face flickers past you on a crowded street, and something in you clicks. Years later, you could still pick that same face out of a grainy photo. For a small group of people known as super ...

A mom got more than she bargained for after buying new curtains for her apartment, with numerous people seeing Adolf Hitler's face in the leafy pattern. "Everyone in the family saw a different image," ...