Saeed Jafari Kang performs research in fluid mechanics—and sleight-of-hand card tricks to improve his English communication skills. A PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological ...

As complicated as Magic: The Gathering is — with all its various and ever-changing keywords, strategies, products, storylines, even entire gameplay formats — would you believe it also has its own ...

That’s all it will take to bring games of Magic: The Gathering to a swift and violent end with the release of Phyrexia: All Will Be One, Magic’s latest expansion. You’ll soon have a new way to blow up ...

The popular press and consumers are going too easy on ChatGPT, says Johns Hopkins University cybersecurity and artificial intelligence expert Anton Dahbura. According to him, the unreliability of such ...

Embiggen is here, and it's both an amazing card, and excellent Simpson's reference (Image via Wizards of the Coast) Magic: The Gathering’s “Unfinity” expansion has some truly ridiculous cards, but one ...

Lanky British magician Drummond Money-Coutts knows only one word of Nepali, “Namaste”, which he learned from children at a shelter in Kathmandu. But he does not need language to communicate with these ...

Editor's note: Today, we introduce a new column, “Defining Moments: How Language Shapes our Lives,” by Tribune copy editor Steve Provost. The veteran journalist will explore the power of words — how ...