Christopher Bontjes shows ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander a cool magic trick using two red balls Prepare to be amazed by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,' ...

Admit it — you still get mindblown every time you come across a street magician performing yet another seemingly impossible trick. And honestly, who doesn't? They always make you scratch your head and ...

To help pay for his undergraduate education, Elias Garcia-Pelegrin had an unusual summer job: cruise ship magician. “I was that guy who comes out at dinnertime and does random magic for you,” he says.

Monkeys with hands that resemble ours fall for a sleight-of-hand magic trick, but those without opposable thumbs aren’t fooled. These differences illustrate how primates’ expectations of the actions ...

This trick required the scientists to put food in one hand, and present that hand to each individual monkey. Clayton (a professor of Comparative Cognition at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow ...

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 ...