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.

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 ...

Magic tricks require the manipulation of the audience's attention and awareness. Macknik, Martinez-Conde and their magician co-authors describe the visual and cognitive illusions that underlie ...

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

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 ...

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

A team of Cambridge psychologists have demonstrated that magic tricks can fool birds, based on a snack-based version of the shell game.

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 ...

The Magic of Science Is it the science of magic? Or the magic of science? Join Dallas Campbell as he pulls a few tricks out of the bag for a truly Bang-style magic show.