Check out our list of 11 easiest magic tricks to do at home below if you are a magic trick junkie and if you’re wondering how to do magic tricks for kids, or how to do magic tricks for beginners.

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 ...

This trick required the scientists to put food in one hand, and present that hand to each individual monkey. Clayton (a professor of Comparative Cognition at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow ...

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 ...

"Contrary to what any statistics show, women and people of color are very interested in magic." Students and instructors at Chicago Magic Lounge's Magic College share ideas and tips. Credit: Sarah ...

University of Cambridge provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Magic tricks can teach us about how the brain works. Magic capitalises on very specific blind spots in people’s attention ...

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 ...

At Houdini’s Magic Shop, shelves are jam packed with the unusual. Picking out just the right magic trick can be difficult with so many options, but with any luck, the resident magician can help — ...

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 ...

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.