The iconic tabletop card game has dabbled in science fiction before, but this new set is space opera-flavored and full of ...

The science of magic Rabbits out of hats, card tricks, levitation... Magic may encourage us to believe in the impossible, but scientists are researching the possibility of using the science behind ...

Should we talk about science like it’s magic? We struggled to balance information and entertainment back in science TV shows to the '50s and '60s. In some ways, we still do.

A Virginia Tech professor will soon unveil the magic behind one of the nation’s most enduring science education series. Matthew Wisnioski, associate professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of ...

What can magic teach us about science? Sleight of hand, stolen watches and disappearing coins might seem like parlor tricks - but they could show us more about our own brains than we ever thought.

This may be possible through the practice of modern magic — a blend of magic, philosophy and cognitive science. Evan Stites-Clayton '11, who turned heads last semester with his Group Independent Study ...

Jeff Goldblum is also quite curious, and dives into understanding the why and how behind a number of life’s great mysteries—or mysteries, at least—in the series “The World According to ...

We don’t really understand our own consciousness; we haven’t even begun to solve the so-called hard problem of the mind and its relationship to matter.

Still, before we concede too much to the practitioners of hocus-pocus, we might want to consider what science has to say - which is just what John Blackstone will be doing in our Cover Story: ...

A MEETING of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry took place on December 7, at Queen Mary College, London, when Mr. J. C. Gregory delivered a lecture entitled “From Magic to ...