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 ...

Ed Brims, who performed one of the winning magic tricks, turned the cone of confusion into a magic trick by simulating an auditory teleportation for his 10-year-old son, Felix, ...

This gadget from 1930 let people ‘talk’ to the dead—with a magic trick. How a Popular Science tutorial for building a ‘spiritphone’ tuned into the hype of the Golden Age of Magic.