Admit it — you still get mindblown every time you come across a street magician performing yet another seemingly impossible trick. And honestly, who doesn't? They always make you scratch your head and ...

A golden retriever duped by a disappearing ball is melting the hearts of millions of viewers on TikTok. In the footage shared by Natalie Koppel (@pawbrey), her boyfriend Johnny Perez is performing ...

The stars of Monkey Magic are returning to Five this Sunday to present a new series celebrating the world's best magicians and their greatest tricks, stunts and escapes. Ali Cook ('Monkey Boy'), Pete ...

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 ...

Join Alex Mandel for easy magic tricks that you can impress your friends with! Get ready to learn and amaze! Farmers learn ...

Ricky Jay and his 52 assistants. Photo: Ken Hively/LA Times via Getty Images In 1988, Ricky Jay awes Arsenio with a simple Three Card Monte. Or so you think. Ricky quickly switches cards from red to ...

Most magic tricks require a fairly sophisticated understanding of how humans perceive the world. To fall for a trick, people have to see things they perceive as important and ignore things that are ...

AT HOME — My cat can be entertained for a while just by slight moves of my watch when light is hitting it right. He can't quite figure out where the light he's trying to catch is coming from, or where ...

“I started doing magic when I was eight. I used to check out magic books from the library in Kenosha, Wisconsin. A librarian noticed and asked me to put on a show—I think I got paid two 50-cent ...

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.

A small experiment using sleights of hand and illusions offers insights into how birds and people perceive the world. By Veronique Greenwood The coin is in the illusionist’s left hand, now it’s in the ...