Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Education, at its most engaging, is performance art. From the moment a teacher steps into the classroom, students look to him or ...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of ...

It is one of the newest, unlikeliest, and most promising attempts to understand the causes, and develop the cures, for Alzheimer’s, ADHD, and other diseases of and traumas to the brain: Magic. “People ...

Teaching magic tricks to children with disabilities can enhance their feelings of self-esteem and confidence, a study has shown. The study, published in Health Psychology Research, is a collaboration ...

Why do we fall for magic? The secret lies in clever psychological tricks that exploit gaps in our brains. Magic is an art form, and magicians don’t easily reveal their methods. But over the years they ...