Lynn Thorndike, professor of history at Columbia University, this week turned out two final chunky volumes of his six-tome monumental History of Magic & Experimental Science, thereby completing almost ...

Read some of the popular books on magic and witchcraft from the 1960s and 1970s and you’ll see an attitude of optimism. The authors were sure that science was just a few years away from proving the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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.

Children in grades 1-6 are invited to explore the science of magic at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at the West Duluth Branch Library, 5830 Grand Ave. Discover how magic and science work together to ...

The word "magic" derives from the Latin, the Greek, the Old Persian, and, ultimately, the Proto-Indo-European magh, "to help, to be able, to be powerful," from which also derive the words "almighty," ...