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 ...

Christopher Bontjes shows ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander an amazing rope magic trick. Prepare to be amazed by this ...

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 ...

An illusion involving a hidden thumb confounds capuchin and squirrel monkeys for the same reason it does humans -- it misdirects expected outcomes of actions they can carry out. However, marmosets ...

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 ...

Sleight of hand expert Ben Seidman reviews and demonstrates sleight of hand tricks, pickpocketing, and psychological magic in films including 'Ocean's 8,' 'My Cousin Vinny,' 'The Recruit,' 'Focus,' ...

Christopher Bontjes shows ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander a joker magic card trick. Get ready to be fooled by this ...

The first shows illusionist Brett Myers performed at the Bird-in-Hand Stage had an audience of eight or 10 people. Now, four years later, shows in the 151-seat theater are often sold out. Is it magic?

Psychologists used a sleight-of-hand trick called the French drop, in which an object appears to vanish when a spectator assumes it is taken from one hand by the hidden thumb of the other hand. The ...