BRISBANE, Australia, March 20 (UPI) --If someone believes they're in control of something uncontrollable, it's logical to think they would be prone to risk taking. But science demands data -- ...

"The Last Leaf" by O. Henry, published in 1907 in his collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million, follows the story of "Johnsy" (Joanna), a young, impoverished artist who is ...

The illusion of control is a mental bias leading people to overestimate the control they have over the outcome of events. Even when the outcome of situations is demonstrably a matter of chance and not ...

An optical illusion, in simple terms, is something that deceives the eye by appearing different from reality. If you set your eyes on something and it appears different from how it really is, you ...

As artificial intelligence grows more sophisticated by the day, the notion of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) looms large—a machine that can think and reason like and even better than humans.

Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions. Rather artists have used their insights into the workings of the human eyes and brain to create illusions in their artwork. Long before ...