When performing magic tricks, it's important to pick your audience carefully. And it would be wise not to attempt sleight-of-hand with a group of marmosets, according to a new study. Researchers have ...

A sleight-of-hand magic trick which often catches humans out only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs – a trait shared with humans, new research suggests. Scientists performed a famous magic trick for ...

A sleight-of-hand magic trick which often catches humans out only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs – a trait shared with humans, new research suggests.Scientists performed a famous magic trick for ...

Birds are less easily fooled by sleight-of-hand magic tricks than humans, a new study into avian perception reveals. Researchers at the University of Cambridge performed three variations of magic ...

Sleight of hand expert Ben Seidman is back with Vanity Fair once again to review more sleight of hand tricks, pickpocketing and psychological magic in films including 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of ...

The tricks of a magician's trade can fool people into disbelieving what they see with their own eyes, a new study shows. New research proves that the traditional conjurer's claim that "the hand is not ...

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 ...