A popular Indian folk remedy involves hanging bottles of colored water, particularly blue, to deter stray animals. While ...

Sounds like spells from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, doesn’t it? While these words could come tumbling out of the mouths of Harry Potter and compatriots, wands waving majestically ...

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.

We all want to be happier. But happiness can often feel like a destination we're always trying to reach, a fleeting moment we can't quite grasp. The good news is, happiness isn't just a matter of luck ...

American Optical Co. (Southbridge, Mass.) last week announced a new trick to detect fakers who claim eye injuries, expected the trick to be of interest to insurance companies and industrial ...

Just as our visual system strains to see the vase and the two faces at once, we struggle to conceive of a motion that has a dual motivation: to put and to fetch. A paper by Van de Cruys, Wagemans and ...

Cambridge University maths professor, Hannah Fry has shared a simple breathing method for opening jar lids that doesn't ...

Passiflora incarnata, Nymphaea odorata, Chamaecrista fasciculata, Asclepius incarnata! Sounds like spells from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, doesn’t it? While these words could come ...