The stars of Monkey Magic are returning to Five this Sunday to present a new series celebrating the world's best magicians and their greatest tricks, stunts and escapes. Ali Cook ('Monkey Boy'), Pete ...

Most magic tricks require a fairly sophisticated understanding of how humans perceive the world. To fall for a trick, people have to see things they perceive as important and ignore things that are ...

University of Cambridge provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Magic tricks can teach us about how the brain works. Magic capitalises on very specific blind spots in people’s attention ...