‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For ages, magicians have bewildered audiences with sleight of hand, causing observers to ask, “How’d they do that?” Little did folks know, some magicians aren’t entirely sure either. A team of ...

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, ...

Stressed out by hot-button issues? Politicized science? Chemistry Lessons From Hell? Relax. Here are some quirky chemistry tricks that require little brain power. I've even explained how they work.

“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 ...