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 ...

Magician Justin Willman stands inside the Magic Castle in Hollywood. His new comedy/magic special, "Magic Lover," premieres Tuesday. (Annie Noelker / For The Times) Even in the daytime, the most ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Doc Docherty, who has been enchanted by magic since he was a kid, is one of the performers at Blume Studios’ immersive The ...

The exploits of any paranormal detective — from Sherlock Holmes to Scooby-Doo — will tell you that the mysterious and the magical always have an explanation grounded in science. (Take the Victorian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Finally, science has confirmed what Penn & Teller have been telling us since Bullshit! began in 2003: magic isn’t real. Indeed, a team of researchers is using the lessons from persuasive “stage magic” ...

Even in the daytime, the most hallowed ground inside the Magic Castle in Hollywood has a way of casting a spell on hard-nosed cynics who might normally consider themselves immune to the art of ...