Has it ever seemed to you that less competent people rate their competence higher than it actually is, while more competent people humbly rate theirs lower? It’s not just your imagination.

Cultures around the world talk about color differently—some don’t even have a word for color. So is color perception a universal human experience or not?

The earliest pill emerged in ancient Egypt as a little round ball containing medicinal ingredients. For the next 5000 years color was almost non-existent. Does color really matter? Aside from the obvious fact that pills are more attractive to the eye ...

In Brisbane's bustling Fortitude Valley, a wall is painted every few weeks by hand, each time showing a new ad mural.

One of the exciting art explorations which came out of the digital culture is video game art, an interesting form of interactive computer art based on video game designs.

In 2005, China publicly stated what many already believed: that its transplant system was built on harvesting organs from criminals sentenced to death. According to declarations by officials, this practice has been banned since January 2015, with org ...

A response to advances in neurotechnology that can read or alter brain activity, new human rights would protect people from theft, abuse and hacking for when our brains are hooked up to computers.

Playing with aspects of negative space and scale, Rotterdam-based artist Daan Botlek fills walls with his trademark anonymous figures, often interacting with their environment in strikingly inventive ways. The artist incorporates basic geometric elem ...

The watch displays the information with the use of four Brailly cells that move dynamically and allows the user to select the character update speed. It connects to smartphones with Bluetooth and can receive text from apps and services like Messenger ...

On 4/20, a group of devoted Denverites opened The Church of Cannabis, a sacred space for smoking the state's 100% legal weed. Spanish muralist Okuda San Miguel (1980) and Kenny Scharf (1958) brought their signature panache to Denver's new ...

Technology is helping us see what lies beneath the surface of works of art. Once upon a time an artist’s signature – down there, in the corner of the painting – was just about all the verification anyone needed to be sure an artwork was genuine. If y ...

In this all too brief video woodworker Paul Sellers gives us a close-up view as he creates a number of ultra satisfying 'Fibonacci' spiral shavings. Between the soothing music, camerawork, and the mathematical perfection of each spiral as i ...

Has Supermarket Packaging Become Excessive?

The emotive faces from our keyboards are now literally plastered across a building in the city of Amersfoort in central Netherlands. The 22 circles relay 22 different expressions, from a smiling face to a grimacing face to a cool face with sunglasses ...

Created in 2006 by multidisciplinary artist Kimsooja, he transformed the Palacio de Cristal into a multisensory sound and light experience. Outside light filters through the glass of the pavilion and reflects off the diffraction film. It diffuses int ...

How one instrument went from being the backbone of American popular music to being a punchline in a joke about the ’80s. There’s no song in the Top 40 right now with a saxophone solo, there’s hardly a defined saxophone part on any of those songs at a ...

Set to be demolished in June to make way for an apartment building,THE HAUS in Berlin is a formerly abandoned 5-story building filled with site-specific works by 165 street artists. THE HAUS was once a bank on avenue Kurfürstendamm, but fell into dis ...

Some would definitely be duped. Landon Meier, a designer and sculptor based in Colorado, makes hyper-realistic masks of famous people. He’s created masks of Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, and more. They look disturbingly real, if a bit un ...

This version of the installation is part of a nationwide tour. If, on a recent Saturday night, you happened to find yourself walking down a desolate street at the edge of L.A.’s Skid Row, you might have passed an open warehouse roll gate in a buildin ...