By performing tricks for birds, monkeys and other creatures, researchers hope to learn how they perceive and think about their world ...

Revealing the science behind age-old magic tricks will help us better understand how humans see, think, and act.

Trilobites Magic Tricks May Fool You, but These Birds Can See Through Them A small experiment using sleights of hand and illusions offers insights into how birds and people perceive the world.

Magic tricks reveal surprising results about autism Date: October 21, 2010 Source: Association for Psychological Science Summary: Magicians rely on misdirection -- drawing attention to one place ...

5 magic science experiments for kids These tricks will make your children think they have superpowers—but it’s really all about the science.

This story was originally published by Inside Science News Service. (ISNS) -- Scientists analyzing how magicians Penn & Teller perform one of the oldest known illusions now reveal that some ...

To back his contention, he argued that, in an era dominated by science, audiences no longer attribute magic tricks to supernatural abilities, but rather to the magician's skills. Moreover, onlookers ...

I’m not a magician to trick anyone. So you don’t think science, which explains away the magic of illusions, will destroy magic? For entertainment, magic is great.

Researchers perform magic tricks for birds, who are not amused Can an animal without hands recognize when humans are using sleight-of-hand tricks?

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Over the years, we have shown you how some things that appear to be a magic trick are actually physics or math. Today, we are going to show you another one of those apparent ...

Should we talk about science like it’s magic? We struggled to balance information and entertainment back in science TV shows to the '50s and '60s. In some ways, we still do.