While we may want to think of a mirage as a glitch in human visual processing, the phenomenon is considered a true optical illusion as it can be explained entirely by changes in the outside world ...

A "superior mirage" may even be behind the myth of the Flying Dutchman. China's Floating City and The Science of Mirages The atmosphere can play fascinating tricks on our brains.

The mirage is an image of a real thing — it can even be photographed — but it's often a distorted image, and it's easy to misinterpret. Viewers "don't know what it is, so they misidentify it ...

Time may not be a fundamental element of the universe but rather an illusion emerging from quantum entanglement, a new study ...

News in Science. Higgs boson may be a mirage. Tuesday, 23 August 2011 Robert Evans Reuters. Researchers say if the Higgs Boson exists, ... Science Online, 12 Sep 2008; New physics?

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William J. Broad is a science journalist and senior writer. He joined The Times in 1983, and has shared two Pulitzer Prizes with his colleagues, as well as an Emmy Award and a DuPont Award.

A 2020 paper by science historian Fiona Amery of the University of Cambridge posits that mirages first became the object of popular captivation in Britain in the 1820s and 1830s, a period that ...