Muse: The magazine of science, culture, and smart laughs for kids and children

My name is Hanne, and I’m going to tell you right away that it’s pronounced Hannah, not Han or Hane. I’ve had people call me Han-aye too. Anyways, I love Muse! I really like guessing the fake article. Even if I don’t always get it right…I’m a ten-yea

Louis Pasteur began studying anthrax in 1877. Sheep were dying of the disease in fields, and then buried where they’d died. Even if shepherds avoided these fields for years, when they returned their flocks would catch the diease and die. Some had the

WHAT DO DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, AND YOUR SISTER’S LACE-UP COMBAT BOOTS ALL HAVE IN COMMON? If your answer was “they’re super cool,” you’d be right! But if your answer was “they’re all part of the gothic’tradition,” you’d be even righter. Being gothic

When Margee Kerr designs a haunted house, she starts by thinking about all the different ways she can startle people—and the story behind the scares. “A well laid-out series of startles can leave people feeling both terrified and thrilled, but they h