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The Baffled Brain

In the sci-fi movie The Matrix, people lie motionless in pods of nutrients while they "dream” that they are living normal lives in the year 1999.

What's Behind Your Eyes

The Science of Sight

A More Acessible World

Some Surprising Obstacles

Camoufleurs And the Art of War

Artists use optical illusions to win wars and save lives.

NOT ACTUAL SIZE

Exploring the Many Faces of Caricature

WHY DO SOME QUESTIONS CONFUSE ROBOTS?

A COMPUTER can easily defeat a human at chess or even the quiz show Jeopardy. But questions that seem obvious trip them up. Read these three:

LIAM MOHAJERI NORRIS

LEGO® ENTHUSIAST, BUILDER, TEACHER

Can Cats Predict Earthquakes?

Are animals’ powers to foretell natural disasters fact or folklore?

Behind The Curtain With Bayesian Statistics

What are statistics? Why do we need them?

Ashton Robinson Cook - Meteorologist

Ashton Robinson Cook always knows when a tornado, hurricane, or winter storm is coming. It’s his job to know. As a meteorologist, he analyzes weather data to figure out where and when storms are likely to hit. Typical weather forecasting tools can look only up to a week ahead. But Cook has developed software called WeatherDeep that can make predictions up to two months in advance. Cook was the first African American man to earn a PhD in meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and also earned the 2017 American Association of State Climatologists (AASC) Dissertation Award for his research on tornadoes.

5 Totally Terrible Technology Predictions

Can you do better? What tech do you expect in 2050?

SEEING IT COMING

Tornado forecasts can be challenging, but a new strategy shows promise.

HI! I'M A CLOUD!!

THE EDITORS OF MUSE ASKED IF I COULD WRITE A FEW WORDS ABOUT GEOENGINEERING, and I said, A few WORDS?? Are you kidding?! I could write a few BOOKS!! Geoengineers* are so clever, so “with it”—I mean, they truly understand how interesting I am. You know?

Adolphe Sax – How To Invent An Instrument

The story of the saxophone

Courtney Craven – Gamer and disability activist

Craven does presentations worldwide to assist game developers, teachers, writers, and others in making text and images available to people with any disability.

The Sounds Of Star Wars

This is the sound design activity you’re looking for.

How Fast Is Sound?

An experiment

Deaf Friends

Want to communicate better with kids with hearing loss? Try these tips.

Trevor Cox – Acoustic engineer and Stonehenge researcher

Trevor Cox is a professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford in the United Kingdom. He engineers systems to make sound better. And he studies how the structures we build affect the sounds we make inside them.

Can You Please Lower Your Voice?

The experience of auditory sensitivity

THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

Hunched over your paper, you try to concentrate. This is the worst kind of assignment.

LEARNING TO HEAR

With cochlear implants

Q&A

Q Where do personal preferences come from? For example, I like hard rock music. Why am I that social outcast who runs screaming into the bathroom at school dances when everyone else is singing along? —Kate, age 13, Ohio

Wonderful Wings

A moth’s costume lets it hide in plain sight.

Amazing Powers Of The Mind

What happens when scientists study psychic abilities?

TE JONES

BAT RESEARCHER

Hot Dogs in a Hurry DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME

EVERY YEAR IN NEW YORK CITY, PEOPLE ENTER A CONTEST TO SEE HOW MANY HOT DOGS THEY CAN EAT IN 10 MINUTES.

FANCY FOLDING

The amazing thing about origami is the enormous number of different objects you can make by folding a square sheet of paper.

The Real-Life: BATMAN

HOW ONE PERSON SEES THROUGH SOUND

DO YOU HAVE ESP?

MAKE YOUR OWN ZENER CARD DECK AND FIND OUT!