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 ...

Forget lightning speed calculations, technological superiority and machine-like precision. Thanks to the efforts of some researchers, artificial intelligence can now create magic. “We’ve done a number ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may love putting on a show for your children, but if they're curious about black hats and white rabbits, then you might want ...

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 ...

People's perceptions of magic tricks and why they are effective are often in direct contrast to how magicians feel their performances are being received by their audiences, new research has suggested.

For thousands of years, magicians have mixed technology, psychology, and performance to ingeniously hack people’s concepts of reality. But when it comes to creating ...

An Ohio magician is using an after-school magic club to help grade school students build confidence through learning.

Magic tricks can teach us about how the brain works. Magic capitalises on very specific blind spots in people’s attention and perception so the techniques that magicians use to trick audiences are ...

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.

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 ...