"The cast members were practicing their card tricks," Pike, 46, recalls to USA TODAY. "Everyone's saying, 'Do you wanna see a trick?' " There's plenty of sleight of hand in the third ...

The Horsemen are back with more mind-bending illusions in “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t,” the third installment of the magic ...

A Humboldt's squirrel monkey is fooled by the "French Drop" magic trick. Credit: E. Garcia-Pelegrin et al., 2023 The key to a successful sleight-of-hand magic trick is how well a magician manipulates ...

A team of researchers performed magic tricks for several species of monkey, and they found that the animals’ gullibility may depend on the structure of their hands. Specifically, the team found that ...

Today in ridiculously wholesome content — a mother was beyond impressed with her daughter’s inventive “magic trick,” which barely even qualified as a sleight of hand. Jackie Gansky, an actress and ...

The perfect sleight is a flawlessly coordinated act of deception. Magicians dedicate hours to bullying their fingers into precise positions and years mastering the art of misdirection. The best ...

In this video I am going to teach you 10 amazing magic tricks that you can do with your hands. I'll teach you how to remove your pinkie finger and restore it, pull your thumb in half, push one hand ...

A small experiment using sleights of hand and illusions offers insights into how birds and people perceive the world. By Veronique Greenwood The coin is in the illusionist’s left hand, now it’s in the ...

What happens when you rest a chopped ping pong ball on your finger and look at it from above? Experimental psychologists have shown that our visual system fills in the bottom part of the ball, even ...