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

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.

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

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

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 ...

Seemingly magical bar tricks, which are not really tricks but based in simple physics and science.

What can magic teach us about science? Sleight of hand, stolen watches and disappearing coins might seem like parlor tricks - but they could show us more about our own brains than we ever thought.

Computer scientists at Queen Mary University London have taught a computer how to create magic tricks using artificial intelligence. After feeding the machine information outlining how to create a ...

Jeff Goldblum is also quite curious, and dives into understanding the why and how behind a number of life’s great mysteries—or mysteries, at least—in the series “The World According to ...