The exploits of any paranormal detective — from Sherlock Holmes to Scooby-Doo — will tell you that the mysterious and the magical always have an explanation grounded in science. (Take the Victorian ...

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.

Learn seven insanely visual and easy magic tricks anyone can perform, from card illusions to coin vanishes and impossible bottle tricks. No special equipment, just pure sleight-of-hand magic revealed.

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 ...

Pulling a rabbit from a top hat. Teleporting from one cage to another. Finding a coin behind a five-year-old’s ear. Magic has long inspired a sense of awe and wonder, but one portion of the population ...

The concept sounds almost too easy: A magician puts on a cannabis-themed magic show in which he performs tricks with a lighter, blows smoke in creative ways and makes a jar of weed disappear into thin ...