By performing tricks for birds, monkeys and other creatures, researchers hope to learn how they perceive and think about their world ...

Trilobites Magic Tricks May Fool You, but These Birds Can See Through Them A small experiment using sleights of hand and illusions offers insights into how birds and people perceive the world.

The science of magic Rabbits out of hats, card tricks, levitation... Magic may encourage us to believe in the impossible, but scientists are researching the possibility of using the science behind ...

Magic tricks make the impossible seem possible. Magicians have long captivated audiences with visual tricks, such as pulling a bunny from a hat or sawing someone in half, but tricks that rely on ...

To back his contention, he argued that, in an era dominated by science, audiences no longer attribute magic tricks to supernatural abilities, but rather to the magician's skills. Moreover, onlookers ...

Researchers perform magic tricks for birds, who are not amused Can an animal without hands recognize when humans are using sleight-of-hand tricks?

5 magic science experiments for kids These tricks will make your children think they have superpowers—but it’s really all about the science.

I’m not a magician to trick anyone. So you don’t think science, which explains away the magic of illusions, will destroy magic? For entertainment, magic is great.

WASHINGTON — Magic tricks prey on people’s subpar powers of perception, but new work finds that the brain has tricks of its own up its sleeve: People notice more than they think. In the ...