A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows how flickering light can cause hallucinations in our brain: it produces "standing waves" of brain activity. The work is published in ...
Also called "flicker fusion frequency," it is the number of frames per second required to reproduce motion in movie film and video. Early movies were typically shot at 16 frames per second (fps), and ...
There’s another oddly flickering star in the galaxy. Astronomers using a telescope in Chile have discovered a star whose strange dimming and brightening of light are reminiscent of Tabby’s star, which ...
One of the worst ways you can possibly start your day is by opening your laptop, with plans to have an extremely productive day and finally tackle your overwhelming to-do list, only to be greeted with ...