For our Christmas special, writer Rachael Funnell joins Dr Gustav Kuhn at the MAGIC Lab to explore everything from the art of ...

I t’s literally the oldest trick in the book, although it’s one you’ve probably never seen before. And while no beautiful assistants are sawn in half, this ancient illusion – performed for the ...

To help pay for his undergraduate education, Elias Garcia-Pelegrin had an unusual summer job: cruise ship magician. “I was that guy who comes out at dinnertime and does random magic for you,” he says.

Albert Einstein was famous for solving the universe’s biggest mysteries - but even he once admitted that a certain magic ...

It’s got to be a great day as a scientist when you’re called upon to perform magic tricks for monkeys. That’s what the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Over the years, we have shown you how some things that appear to be a magic trick are actually physics or math. Today, we are going to show you another one of those apparent magic ...

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Stressed out by hot-button issues? Politicized science? Chemistry Lessons From Hell? Relax. Here are some quirky chemistry tricks that require little brain power. I've even explained how they work.

When Rachel Díaz of Culver City, California, “magically” refilled a soda can for her son, the nine-year-old’s first words were “Cool!” And then: “How’d you do that?” Science-based magic tricks stand ...

Pulling a rabbit from a top hat. Teleporting from one cage to another. Finding a coin behind a five-year-old’s ear. Magic has long inspired a sense of awe and wonder, but one portion of the population ...

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Close your eyes and imagine a sound, someone’s voice, coming from your left. It slowly shifts to come from behind you, then moves to your right. Around and around, it circles. Suddenly, the voice ...