The researchers from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science gave a computer program the outline of how a magic jigsaw puzzle and a mind reading card trick work, as well the results ...

Glitz, glamorous assistants and the occasional white rabbit are images - if you mind the pun - conjured up when you think of magic tricks. But really, there’s a far deeper thinking behind the magician ...

Magic tricks make the impossible seem possible. Magicians have long captivated audiences with visual tricks, such as pulling a bunny from a hat or sawing someone in half, but tricks that rely on sound ...

Why do we enjoy looking at magic? Everyone knows these are tricks and not "real". It's not as though we don't know our senses are being deceived. But we still watch and wait for the reveal. It might ...

Albert Einstein was known for seeing through complex ideas. Very few magic tricks ever impressed him. This one worked by ...

And what more fun can you have than amazing your friends and family with a magic trick? Before you read on here, you’ll need to have mastered the magic trick that Paul calls the Australian Magician’s ...

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 ...

It's the sort of conundrum that apprentice wizard Merlin - eponymous hero of the current BBC children's drama - needn't concern himself too much about: how do magicians stop others from pinching their ...

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