Study reveals why eyes in some paintings seem to follow viewers
... where you go. People have described the effect as creepy or eerie, and some have thought it supernatural. But now researchers have demonstrated the very natural cause for this visual effect. All it takes for the effect to work is to have the person in the painting, or photograph, look straight ahead, said ...Washington-area chemist wins national award for free-radical research
...o love the natural world. It started as a love for creepy crawly things as a tiny child, and then when I was only 7 years old my father gave me a child's guide to astronomy. I just ate that up." Later, in high school, an older student who shared her bus befriended her. "She wanted to become a chemist -- thi...