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Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Brain Chains
Will Actual Mind Melding Make the World Smarter—or Scarier?
8 min |
April 2017
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
A Live Map Of Everywhere On Earth: Creepy Or Cool?
Imagine turning on the GPS and seeing an image of your car from above.
2 min |
May - June 2019
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
All Maps Are Wrong But Many Are Useful
It is an inarguable mathematical fact that every map is a lie.
5 min |
May - June 2019
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Match Mythical Creatures With Real Marine Life
Match mythical creatures with real marine life.
1 min |
May - June 2019
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Search & Rescue Kids
Using maps to find lost people
7 min |
May - June 2019
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Tim Wallace Cartographer
Tim Wallace is a modern-day cartographer. In other words, he spends his days creating maps. To prepare for that career, Wallace earned a PhD in geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While earning his degree, Wallace worked at The New York Times, where he created thousands of maps on a wide variety of topics. These included the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in Houston in 2017; the territory controlled by terrorist group ISIS; and the results of elections. He recently started a new job as geographer and visual journalist at Descartes Labs, a company that collects data from different sources to help people and businesses better understand the planet.
3 min |
May - June 2019
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Multicolored Maps
Maps of the United States often show the states in different colors. In general, mapmakers use enough colors to make sure states that touch are never the same color.
1 min |
May - June 2019
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Urban Geocaching
Treasure Right Under Your Nose
5 min |
May - June 2019
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Little Creatures Among Us
THE MANY MICROBES IN OUR DAILY LIVES
7 min |
January 2018
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
The Littlest Astronauts
WHY STUDY BUGS IN US . . . IN SPACE?
3 min |
January 2018
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Just How Buggy Is Your Phone?
WHAT ITEM in your home crawls with the most germs? If you said the toilet seat, you’re wrong. Kitchen sponges top the list. But cell phones are pretty grimy too. They contain around 10 times as many germs as toilet seats. People touch their phones, laptops, and other digital devices all day long, yet rarely clean them.
1 min |
January 2018
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
The Future Of Money
From the gold standard to virtual tokens
5 min |
April 2019
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How (And Why) Banks Handle Money
How (and why) banks handle money
3 min |
April 2019
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Can You Repeat That?
One day you go for a checkup, and the doctor suggests something you should do to stay healthy.
2 min |
July/August 2018
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
OOPS!
MOST PRINT newspapers and magazines run corrections. These note mistakes both large and small. But as more people read news online, corrections face big changes.
3 min |
July/August 2018
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Maryam Zaringhalam Science Policy Scholar
Maryam Zaringhalam is a science and technology policy fellow through the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
4 min |
July/August 2018
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Cold Fusion
The myths and mysteries behind one of science’s biggest mistakes
6 min |
July/August 2018
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Tammy Ma Experimental Physicist
Tammy Ma’s job involves firing lots of powerful lasers: 192 of them to be exact. She works at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), home to the world’s largest and most energetic laser system. Three football fields could fit inside the building. One of the original goals of the giant facility was to harness fusion energy.
3 min |
July/August 2018
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Easy As ABC
In 2012, a Japanese mathematician named Shinichi Mochizuki announced that he finally knew the abc’s.
4 min |
July/August 2018
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Is It Possible To Avoid A Robot Rebellion?
ROBOT OVERLORDS roll, stomp, and fly through movies and comic books.
2 min |
November/December 2017
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Cathy O'Neil
DATA SCIENTIST
4 min |
November/December 2017
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Out Of Left Field Cafe
HOW DO SCIENTISTS PASS THE TIME AT FAR-FLUNG RESEARCH SITES?
4 min |
September 2017
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Could You Live Without Your Phone?
WHAT WOULD you do with your time if you couldn’t use a cell phone, computer, or other digital device? Would you perish of boredom? Or would you feel happier and more relaxed? Some teens have tried it and lived to tell the tale.
1 min |
September 2017
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ
Xiuhtezcatl (pronounced SHU-tez-caat) Martinez is a 16-year-old with big hopes for the Earth’s future. Since he was 6, he has dedicated his life to the fight for global environmental health. By age 13, he had received a presidential award for his work and was selected as one of the leading youth changemakers by the Campaign for a Presidential Youth Council. Xiuhtezcatl, whose name means “Turquoise Mirror,” has brought together youth from around the world to act as warriors defending our planet.
4 min |
February 2017
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Berry Thirsty
On a virtual farm, would you grow strawberries or raspberries?
2 min |
February 2017
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Fasten Your Seat Belt
What if We Treated Melting Ice Like Other Possible Catastrophes?
4 min |
February 2017
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Planet Search
Math helps us chart the universe.
2 min |
July/August 2017
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
What's In A (Dog's) Name?
SOME SHELTERS ARE RETHINKING BREED LABELS.
2 min |
February 2018
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
The Motion Of The Heart
WILLIAM HARVEY’S RADICAL THEORY OF CIRCULATION
5 min |
October 2017
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Should Blood Tests Be Part Of A Healthy Person's Routine?
IT’S A TYPICAL morning: you wake up, take a shower, brush your teeth, and then prick your arm with a tiny needle.
2 min |