When our eyes dart around the entire scene, the black dots move into and out of our visual field, making them seem as if they are flickering on and off.

Utilizing elements of color psychology in website design can affect your visitors mood, opinions, and even actions and decisions. Learn more...

Push your knowledge of the third dimension and enjoy a series of experiments that reimagine the magic of the Rubik’s Cube®.

You’d better train your index finger before taking this challenge. Don’t hurt yourself. The 100 Meter Scroll is the brainchild of designer/developer Michael Vestergaard, and just could be the most fun thing you do today.

Take charge of a NLOS Cannon to destroy enemy targets with indirect fire. Learn about NLOS Cannons with the Cannon Challenge Game.

GeoGuessr is a geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings.

Summing up years of work in one sentence.

Poker players might call it the “tell” — it’s the idea that your body language tells your questioners if the words you’re saying are actually true or false. These subjects in a University of Chicago study on body language and lying were asked several general questions — and then told off camera to lie or tell the truth when answering. Can you tell truth from falsehood?

Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City was the densest place on the planet before it was torn down 20 years ago. In this Wall Street Journal interactive, you can take a trip through the city, explore its history and hear from the people who lived there.

Popular names follow a familiar cycle: They become increasingly common as new parents jump on the bandwagon, only to peak and decline as everyone on the playground starts answering to the same name. Some old standards lie dormant for half a century before gradually returning–hello, Evelyn. Others skyrocket and decline in a few years (that’s you, Miley).

Let the author and bartender Rosie Schaap make you a custom summer cocktail.

A ground-breaking milestone in the study of peace. For the first time, an Index has been created that ranks the nations of the world by their peacefulness and identifies some of the drivers of that peace.

No one ever really knows when they have had "one too many" but you may now at least have a chance to keep better track. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has created what they are calling the "cocktail content calculator" in an effort to let drinkers know just how much alcohol is in that drink they are about to gulp down.

Are you a movie fanatic? Prove it with this quiz!

Daily diets vary considerably around the world.

Real time stats about your life so far and the world around you

4Real creates 4 virtual worlds for Teengirl's fantasy new EP!

With so much focus in the publishing world on e-books, you might have missed the recent explosion in the popularity of audio books. They've become a billion-dollar industry with huge annual sales growth, in part because anyone with a smartphone can now also pocket an audio book. Alexandra Alter of the Wall Street Journal writes that the audio surge is changing the very way people read, "creating a new breed of literary omnivores who see narrated books and text as interchangeable."

Buckle up and ride a rocket through our interactive view of the Solar System to explore our cosmic neighbourhood

Amazon is set to open distribution centers at two large US colleges and offer students next-day delivery of textbooks and other items through co-branded websites. The universities of Massachusetts Amherst and Purdue say that the deal means students will save nearly $400 annually on textbooks. Amazon is also giving the schools a 0.5-2.5 percent cut, which will net at least $1.7 million in revenue for Purdue and $1.5 million...