On Halloween night in 1936, the tiny, white-haired widow of Harry Houdini made her final attempt to contact him from beyond the grave. Beatrice "Bess" Houdini fell hard in love with the escapologist ...

Physicist Richard Feynman invented them to describe the interactions between real particles. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This ...

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Dept. of Energy and NSF. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ...

Erik Weisz aka Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician, escapologist and illusionist living in the late 1800s to early 1900s. He was incredibly strong – a necessity when performing ...

Discover the fascinating world of particle physics — the most fundamental building blocks of the universe and the forces that connect them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Get a first look at video and photos of Broadway star and multiple Drama Desk nominee Ryan Silverman (Broadway’s Side Show, Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera) as the most famous illusionist and ...

Magician John Henry Anderson died in 1874, the same year Harry Houdini was born - yet despite the two never meeting, Anderson was reputedly among the legendary escapologist's greatest inspirations.

The famed escapologist had a reputation for death-defying stunts. But his rise to fame and sudden death both came with some unexpected twists. A daring escapeBound in chains, Houdini is photographed ...

An 11-year-long survey of the particles and antiparticles near our sun is unlocking our solar system’s history – and raising new mysteries about the particles themselves. “It’s like when you walk into ...