A magician must make a trick look effortless, but it's very unlikely that anything is casual or spontaneous in a magic show. Just as you might go to a ballet and imagine the sweat and tears needed to ...

And what more fun can you have than amazing your friends and family with a magic trick? Before you read on here, you’ll need to have mastered the magic trick that Paul calls the Australian Magician’s ...

Illusioneering (www.illusioneering.org) is the brainchild of researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, and is led by Professor Peter McOwan. He explains: “This fun new website shows the ...

A sleight-of-hand magic trick which often catches humans out only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs – a trait shared with humans, new research suggests. Scientists performed a famous magic trick for ...

The researchers from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science gave a computer program the outline of how a magic jigsaw puzzle and a mind reading card trick work, as well the results ...

Join Dallas Campbell as he pulls a few tricks out of the bag for a truly Bang-style magic show. Read below to find out why and how it all works. Download the Magic of Science PDF(595 Kb). Adobe ...

Anyone who has caught Dynamo on any of his tours will have been wowed by his magical prowess - but science says it's not as special as you think. Magicians are fooling audiences into thinking they're ...

Physicist-turned-magician Kevin Quantum brings an evening of light comedy, illusions, and showmanship to the Adelaide Fringe, combining the sciences of psychology, chemistry, and mathematics with ...

Want to mystify your friends or family by predicting the future? In the third of our STEM Project challenges, we’ll show you how maths can help you seemingly read someone’s mind as you magically ...

Birds are less easily fooled by sleight-of-hand magic tricks than humans, a new study into avian perception reveals. Researchers at the University of Cambridge performed three variations of magic ...

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