‘What happens inside your brain when you’re experiencing something that you know to be impossible?’ ‘What happens inside your brain when you’re experiencing something that you know to be impossible?’ ...

In the video above from the Wired YouTube channel, magician David Kwong, and author of the book Spellbound, reveals the “7 Principles of Illusion.” These principles are what turns a simple sleight of ...

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 magician is using his knowledge of magic theory and practice to investigate the brain’s powers of observation. A magician is using his knowledge of magic theory and practice to investigate the brain ...

In a brightly coloured shipping container in east London, Rubens Filho is asking me to pick a card. “Any card,” he says, fanning the pack out face down. “And don’t worry, you can show me. That’s not ...

Are the secrets behind the world's greatest magic tricks actually wired into the human brain? Eccentric magicians Penn and Teller and Las Vegas trickster Apollo Robbins team up with neuroscientists to ...

New Jersey Performing Arts Center will welcome the wildly popular kids' science podcast Brains On! for a brand-new stage spectacular: Brains On! Live: Your Brain Is Magic! on Saturday, January 17, ...

Magicians like David Blaine, Penn and Teller could soon have a new trick up their sleeves: brain imaging. Functional-MRI scans of people watching magic tricks implicate two brain regions that ...

“I’m going to flip through here and I want you to glance at a card in the middle,” Jay Olson tells his volunteer, offering the deck of cards in his hands. “Not the bottom one—that’s kind of simple for ...