The film Black Swan (2010) is the journey of a dancer seeking perfection. However, this leads her to dance a downward spiral, in which reality becomes increasingly distorted. The concept of reality is ...

A 63-year-old man reported that objects -- especially people and faces -- began to appear much smaller than normally expected ...

Studies find that people's perception of time really does warp during exercise, and the distraction of racing a rival does not fix this distorted perception. When you purchase through links on our ...

How clearly do you think you see the world? Well, I have scary news. We don’t see things as they are. We don’t even see. We perceive. Your eyes, ears, and senses receive information from the outside ...

Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. I’ve always been partial to Dunbar, ...