A girl bends over a £20 note, concentrating. Her long hair falls forward. She is trying to fold the note into three, and hook paperclips over the folds. The fingernails of her left hand are painted ...

Glitz, glamorous assistants and the occasional white rabbit are images - if you mind the pun - conjured up when you think of magic tricks. But really, there’s a far deeper thinking behind the magician ...

The researchers from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science gave a computer program the outline of how a magic jigsaw puzzle and a mind reading card trick work, as well the results ...

MAGICIAN ‘Wizard Mandrake’s’ loved ones probably wish they could turn back time and stop him from trying out his latest terrifying trick. The Indian stuntman, 40, was found dead yesterday after being ...

Having a card trick up your sleeve is a handy skill – so I'm learning a thing or two from one of London's finest magicians Boudicca is a commissioning editor and writer for The Telegraph's weekend ...

Anyone who has caught Dynamo on any of his tours will have been wowed by his magical prowess - but science says it's not as special as you think. Magicians are fooling audiences into thinking they're ...

Paul Daniels has died aged 77. He was born in Middlesbrough in 1938 and was the TV performer with a magic touch who entertained TV audiences for most of the 1980s and 1990s. His BBC magic show ran ...

Magician Piff the Magic Dragon: 'I spent $70k on a trick to trap a watch in jelly' John van der Put on doing close-up magic tricks for Pepsi and investing in himself, not the stock market Gift this ...

For comedy fans, they were just brilliantly entertaining – but the legendary Tommy Cooper’s magic tricks could help patients with damaged hands, a new study has shown. Practising some of his routines, ...

Birds are less easily fooled by sleight-of-hand magic tricks than humans, a new study into avian perception reveals. Researchers at the University of Cambridge performed three variations of magic ...