Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may love putting on a show for your children, but if they're curious about black hats and ...

You don’t have to be a wizard to do magic tricks. The secrets are simple, and anyone can learn them. Here are two easy tricks you can master today. Credit...United Labor Supported by By Ian Frisch I ...

Ricky Jay and his 52 assistants. Photo: Ken Hively/LA Times via Getty Images In 1988, Ricky Jay awes Arsenio with a simple Three Card Monte. Or so you think. Ricky quickly switches cards from red to ...

A playful look at how magic tricks work, with a curious test of viral life hacks along the way.

Admit it — you still get mindblown every time you come across a street magician performing yet another seemingly impossible trick. And honestly, who doesn't? They always make you scratch your head and ...

People's perceptions of magic tricks and why they are effective are often in direct contrast to how magicians feel their performances are being received by their audiences, new research has suggested.

Teaching magic tricks to children with disabilities can enhance their feelings of self-esteem and confidence, a study has shown. Learning and performing magic tricks can benefit children and adults ...

Magic tricks can teach us about how the brain works. Magic capitalises on very specific blind spots in people’s attention and perception so the techniques that magicians use to trick audiences are ...

Magic Murray runs through the best magic tricks to perform with a girl for maximum effect.

Finally, science has confirmed what Penn & Teller have been telling us since Bullshit! began in 2003: magic isn’t real. Indeed, a team of researchers is using the lessons from persuasive “stage magic” ...

You only need a cursory familiarity with the work of magicians like Derren Brown and David Blaine to realise that at the heart of many illusions lies a piece of rock-solid mathematics ...