If you are not familiar with the strange, semisecret world of modern conjuring you may be surprised to know that there are thousands of entertaining tricks with cards, dice, coins, and other objects ...

Freely available to any school in England, the Manual exposes the secrets behind street magic, close-up and stage tricks, revealing the varied and exciting everyday uses for the mathematics powering ...

Maths isn’t always deadly serious. To prove it, here’s a card trick to amaze your friends in the pub. It was invented by Arthur Benjamin, a mathematician and magician at Harvey Mudd College in ...

A maths wizard has discovered the largest known prime number and it's an amazing 17 MILLION digits long. Curtis Cooper, of the University of Central Missouri, in the US found it by using hundreds of ...

Want to mystify your friends or family by predicting the future? In the third of our STEM Project challenges, we’ll show you how maths can help you seemingly read someone’s mind as you magically ...

Anyone who has caught Dynamo on any of his tours will have been wowed by his magical prowess - but science says it's not as special as you think. Magicians are fooling audiences into thinking they're ...

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 ...