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Have a young reader who’s interested in everything? MUSE® is for them, because it’s about everything: past, present, and future; history, science, and the arts. Not just a collection of facts, MUSE is a guidebook for exploration with intelligent writing and amazing photographs. Each issue is enlivened with the nine New Muses, smart alecks who inhabit the margins and offer their own unique brand of humor and pointed commentary.

  • Wide range of topics covered in every issue
  • Unique, zany sense of humor
  • Wisecracking characters offer quirky observations and jokes
"MUSE® is an essential aid in helping to prepare students for the complicated world out there." - Leon L. Lederman, Nobel Laureate in Physics
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Suggested for ages: 9-14
Product Code: MUS

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Available Back Issues

Issues From '08
HITTING THE WALL
Features include: Racing the Antelope, Freaky Fluid, Infection, Renaissance Man, Charlie Goodnight and the First Cattle Drive
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IMAGINING
Features include: Wait, We Forgot the Pencil!, How a Pencil is Made, Christmas Postcards from the South Pole, A Perfect Red, Nexting
$5.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
HOW SMART COULD IT BE?
Features include: Unlikely Minds: Why the Octopus Has a Brain Rather Than a Shell, Fly Like a Bird?, The Answers about Climate Change, Choco …
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THE CITY'S FURY
Features include: Rats!, You Say Susquehanna, I say Kanastoge, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker: A Schroder's Cat of Extinction and Conservation, Thi …
$5.97  Suggested for ages 9-14
ROMANCE IS IN THE AIR
Features include: Oxygen: A Love Story, Something for Nothing, Construction: Sight, Mozart's Little Muse
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JANUARY ISSUE 2008 MUSE
Features include: The Google Story, Artsmart Pigeons, Time Flies, Convergence, Making a Universe
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Issues From '07
NOVEMBER 2007 ISSUE MUS
Features include: How Many Had to Die?, Flotsam Science, Garden of Surprise, Message in a Bottle
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OCTOBER ISSUE 2007 MUS
Features include: Talking to Ghosts, The Man with the Brains, The Other 1, Sounds Amazing!
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UNELMPLOYED ELEPHANTS
Features include: Tiny Houses, Big Backyards, Whiter the Mahout?, Caterpillar, Grub, Larva, Nymph, Maggot
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JULY 2007 ISSUE MUS
Features include: The Broad Street Pump, Maria Sibylla Merian: Drawing from Life, What Hath Harry Wrought?
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MAY 2007 ISSUE MUSE
Features include: Banker to the Poor, Giant, Nonfolding Money, How the U.S. Economy Works, Play Money
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APRIL 2007 ISSUE MUSE
Features include: The War of the Origami Bugs, Yo! Turn Me Off!, Playing 'Possum, Pyongyrang
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Features include: The Secret Life of Jeans, Math Page: Picture Game, You are the Guardian of Your Genes, The Great Book Rescue, Hieroglyphs …
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WHAT IS THIS CREATURE?
Features include: The Printer's Trial, Whimsical Wood, How to Be Cool, Selling Soap, If the World Didn't Have Shes or Hes..., No one Thanked …
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUSE
Features include: Muse Turns, Math Page: The Power of Ten, Last Page: The Ultimate Party Favor, Vegetarianism, Picking the Perfect Birthday …
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Issues From '06
YOUR INNER COPYCAT
Your Inner Copycat, Living Pictures, A Muse Mini-Myth: The Trojan War, or a Really Bad Series of Unfortunate Events, Schliemann: Braggart, B …
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OCTOBER 2006 ISSUE MUSE
Features include: Screamazon.eek, Bo's page, Muse Mail, Math Page: Upgrading, Empire of the Dead, Slime, Cosplaying, X-Treme Cheese Rolling, …
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MUSE SEPTEMBER 2006 ISSUE
Features include: A Warning from the Golden Toad, The Secrets of Vesuvius, Surviving a Robot Revolt, Getting Around in Style, Water World.
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Who's That You're Eating
Features include: You Are What You Eat, Drip Detective, The Abstract Expressionist Brushwork of Cats, Swimming to Antartica, Invasion of the …
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SAY WHAT?
Features Include: Learning to Speak, English as She is Spoke, A Lost Language, The Poetry Machine, A Made-Up Language, Many Languages
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-14
MEMORY
Features Include: Making Memories - Why You Can't Remember Your First Birthday, Vehicles with Insufficient Wheels, The Sun Pitches a Fit, Th …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
Under Your Skin
Features include: Under Your Skin, Balck and White Photos, The Bias Hunters, Zebra-Fish Stripes, It's All About the Vitamins, Zebra Stripes, …
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Where Did Flo Go?
Features include: Who was Flo?, The Sentry-Box Experiments, Tidying Up Art, Paco the Taco, Translation from the Elizabethan.
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WIZARDS OF THE RAINFOREST
Features include:Medical Mavericks, TechnoPuzzlers, Are you a Natural-Born Un-naturalist?, Portrait of a Lady, Their Ticket is Valid.
$5.95  Suggested for ages 9-13
Issues From '05
EXPLODING TROUSERS
Features Include: Cavefish.net, Bo's Page, Muse Mail, Kokopelli & Company, Math Page: A Good Plot, Q & A, Muse Contest, Last Page: Skaters, …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
POISON POTION
Features include: WOnder drug, Bo's Page, Muse Mail, Kokopelli & Company, Math Page: Sudoku Mania, Meet our Muses, Sweet Elixar of Death, Th …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
PLANTING A RAINFOREST
Stimulate your appetite for information and unusual facts with this jam-packed issue chock-full of fascinating articles and fabulous photog …
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BRAIN, BAFFLING YOUR
It’s all a matter of perceptions and perspective in Muse’s mind-boggler filled with optical tricks and illusions sure to confound readers wi …
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BIRDS DOING MATH
Is a knowledge of numbers inborn? Count with a coot in our feature story to find out. Is it possible to live for an entire year without shop …
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SCIENTIFIC LIAR SPOTTING
Wizards of detection, professional lie-catchers, what makes a smile true, an advanced face-reading test, and many additional facts on the ma …
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HOW TO SPOT A FAKE REBRANT
How do art experts form their opinions? The Rembrandt Research Project sets forth all the evidence on paintings attributed to this famous ar …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 9-13
IS EVERYBODY SPECIAL?
Get a grasp on what’s fantasy and what’s real in self-esteem theory in this highly regarded issue. Learn about the adventures of painter Ale …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 9-13
GUILtY AS CHARGED
There’s plenty of regular stuff and even more new stuff presented in this killer issue. Crime solving techniques from eyewitness accounts to …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 9-13
Issues From '04
WHAT'S INSIDE THE EARTH?
Grab your compass as scientists track our collapsing magnetic field. Fathom what’s inside the earth and laugh out loud at the logic of those …
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THE OLDEST MUMMIES/POOP DEFENSE
The earliest known mummifications – discovered in Chile, no less – and the poop on poop are just two of the fascinating features in this fer …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 9-13
STOLEN MONA LISA
Muse takes a look at math, microscopes and the Mona Lisa. And it doesn’t take much to bring this famous lady to mind as The Fine Art of Adve …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
MONSTERS AND GIANTS AND GODS
Take a giant step into this monstrous issue and select from features like Battles of the Gods: A Muse Mini Myth; When Giants Walked the Eart …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 9-13
BLACK HOLES
Muse has a close encounter with a black hole, about 15 light-years from Earth! Sink or be sunk in a game of battleship, take a trip to Madag …
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FAIRY TALES
Who wrote Cinderella? Who was Mother Goose? And what was in the minds of Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers as they penned their favori …
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RAINFOREST / MIRAGES
Get the dirt on the rainforest in this issue that uncovers some of the mysteries posed by tropical nature. The illusive mirage is explained …
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Could You Live Forever?
Determine your destiny in this edition that discusses how long people are able to live and if there is a secret to staying young. What was t …
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SNOWBALL EARTH / FAST-FOOD TASTERS
Snowball Earth, a view of our planet just a few hundred million years ago, and Andy Goldsworthy’s snowball art bookend this intelligent issu …
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Issues From '03
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
There’s magic in middle earth in this spellbinding “making-of” issue. Meet a man who can talk with Elves, and the real-life Gollum. From ma …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
PARASITES / SECRET PASSAGES
Find out everything you didn’t even know you wanted to know about parasites before delving into an article about a spooky house that has som …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
What Happened on Easter Island?
Easter’s End, The Polynesian Mystery, the Mysterious Island and Remarkable Trees are just a few of the delights that await readers. Big thin …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
SKATEBOARD PARKS
Muse goes airborne, dude, and checks out the coolest skate parks for ollies in America. Color photographs of adventure parks -- from willowy …
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PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINES
Readers will be captivated by the magically entertaining and extraordinarily complex machines contestants enter in the Carnival of the Centu …
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Are You What You Wear?
Test your fashion IQ and discover just why a penny comes up heads in this clever issue that covers everything from clowns and their costumes …
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Call of the Cryptile Lizard
Beasts that might evolve in a future without humans, a jaunt to New Zealand’s Fiordland to visit the last known kakapo booming grounds, and …
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JUST GERMS / SWORDFIGHTING
The common cold is a puzzle that’s a long way from being solved and Muse devotes much of this issue to scientists’ attempts to figure it out …
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Was Napoleon Killed by His Wallpaper?
Was Napoleon actually French? And was he really that short? Did his wallpaper kill him? These questions about the pint-sized dictator and mo …
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Issues From '02
THE BLACK DEATH
Follow the effects feast and famine had on one of the biggest mortality crises ever – and how hygiene and medicines eventually improved foo …
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CHESS / HARRY POTTER
Rooks, bishops, pawns, knights, kings and queens – all the game pieces and their history are here in Muse’s look at chess for kids who don’t …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
BARBARIANS ON THE SILK ROAD
The mummies of the Taklamakan offer silent clues to early trade and contact between China and the West. Step into the Umrichi Museum and try …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
HOAXES AND CONSPIRACIES
Fly with Muse to the moon and back; calculate the cost and effort of space travel in Why We Can’t Get There from Here; imagine life without …
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BIRDS RELATED TO DINOSARUS?
Find out the answer to this thought-provoking question in an extensive feature adapted from Christopher Sloan’s Feathered Dinosaurs. Additio …
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ANIMAL DADS
Fathers are the exception rather than the rule in the animal kingdom and this edition looks at species in which the males are in charge of p …
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WHAT'S RISKY?
Take a chance and read what scientists have discovered about our fears. The spirit of adventure is kept alive in two amazing tales – mountai …
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Issues From '01
MAKING MOVIE MONSTERS
Virtual monsters from Star Wars to Jurassic Park are captured in this movie special-effects edition. Decipher messages from monkeys and magp …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING
The origin myth of the first Thanksgiving gives us a shared sense of what it means to be American. This issue also follows the course of one …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
NEANDERTHALS
The mystery of the Neandertals poses more questions than have been answered for certain in this far-reaching edition that also includes feat …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
TRAINING ASTRONAUTS
Astronauts test space suits worth millions in our cover story. Discover who built the pyramids and how. Enjoy an excerpt from What Life was …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
THE ROSWELL INCIDENT
Believers and skeptics alike will want to explore this extraterrestrial edition. Meet a science advisor to the creator of The X-Files, and l …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
TAMING THE HORSE
Muse uncovers the history of domestic horses, illuminates why we don’t ride zebras and more in this eclectic edition. You’ll shed your fears …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
Issues From '00
DINOSAURS AND WORMS
Kick off with Dinosaur Ghosts: The Mystery of Coelophysis and then travel to Australia to hunt for the Gippsland earthworm. Yaaawning is sur …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
CRACKING THE MAYA CODE
Muse deciphers the decoding of Mayan texts from the early attempts of Diego de Landa and Brassuer de Bourbourg to the unraveling of “name ta …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
MUMMIES AND TOMBS
Crawl into a lost tomb and discover chamber after chamber with Egyptologist Kent Weeks. Discover how a conversion mistake ended in disaster …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
QUEST FOR THE GIANT SQUID
Scientists share their knowledge of the giant squid, gleaned from studying specimens washed up on shore, or found within the stomachs of spe …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
FAILED FUTURELANDS
What did people of the past think the world was going to be like in the year 2000 and beyond? Muse takes a look at some Tomorrowlands that n …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
Issues From '99
END-OF-THE WORLD STORIES
Grab your scarves and mittens for this chilling issue that includes photos and excerpts from The Worst Journey in the World and a feature on …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 10-15
FABULOUS BUGS
From owlet moths to bombardier beetles, wheel bugs to crab spiders, insects rule in this colorful edition about bizarre bugs. Additional art …
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