Category: News For Kids
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Vaccination Debate Over Measles Outbreak In US
Disneyland theme park in California, US is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world. People pour in from all over the world to see it. It is flocked by thousands of visitors including tourists and locals every day. In December 2014, a person infected with measles, a highly contagious virus, was…
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NASA To Study Identical Twins
Do you have an identical twin? Identical twins have identical genetic profiles. They look very similar, and if brought up in the same environment they even behave similarly. You just can’t tell one twin from the other! Twins are usually study subjects of researchers in the science labs. Why does the space organisation NASA needs…
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Blue Algae Boom In Hong Kong
Many of Hong Kong’s shores are shimmering with bright blue waves. The Tolo Harbour, in northeast of HongKong and the Silver Mine beach in the Lantau island, the biggest island of Hong kong, are one of the few places that are lit up by the glowing waves at the night. What makes this phenomenon exceptional is that humans have nothing to do…
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Teenager Shubham Banerjee Invents A Cheap Braille Printer
Shubham Banerjee is all but 13 years old. He lives in San Jose, California with his parents. He goes to school and loves it, especially science. Everything about him sounds normal except this: Shubham, for his 7th-grade school science fair project, made a Braille Printer – a fully functional Braille printer! Braille is a system of dots and…
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A Historic Rock Climb
Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson climbed the summit of El Capitan, 19 days after they took the first step to fulfilling their dream. El Capitan is a 3000 feet granite rock in Yosemite National Park in California, US. To climb the granite rock has always been challenging for climbers because it is steep and not…
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What is Turning Taj Mahal Yellow?
Since long, dust and industrial pollution have been known to have a hand in tanning of the beautiful Taj Mahal. Now we have one more culprit, and it is the least expected one. Just like how it happens in most of the mystery novels. It is cow dung! How can cow dung turn Taj Mahal…
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Lake Made up of Glass or Water?
In December 2014, Tomas Nunuk and a friend decided to explore Velke Hincovo Pleso, biggest and the deepest lake of Slovakia, located in the High Tatras Mountains. What they did not know was that they would have an experience of a lifetime. The lake was frozen crystal clear! It seemed like someone had covered…
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The Cloud City Over Venus
Did we give up the Mars mission? Nope, but all eyes are on Venus now. Well, the Mars mission is still underway in parallel, but NASA has come up with a new plan. They are considering to send astronauts on Venus. The more we learn about Venus, the better it would be for the Mars…
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Ancient Egyptian Spell Book Decoded
A 20 page Egyptian book of magic spells had been in possession of Macquarie University, Australia since late 1980’s. The 7th-century spell book is made of a stiff, flat, thin material(known as parchment) made from the prepared skin of an animal, usually a sheep or goat. The researchers at the University, have finally managed to…
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A Safety Deposit Box On Moon
Want to send something to the moon? You can now send a tiny something to the moon by using a service called moonmail. This service is offered by a company named Astrobotic. You can send diamonds, tiny rings and locks of hair to be saved permanently on the moon. Just like you keep things safely…
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Living Legend forced to sell his Nobel Prize
Well, the Nobel prize that is won by a lot of hard work in a particular area of research was recently on sale. This has happened for the first time when James Watson, 86, sold his Nobel prize that he won in 1962. He had won the Nobel prize in Physiology of medicine for discovering the…
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New Species Of Frog Smaller Than Thumbelina
Do you know the story of Thumbelina? Once upon a time, there lived a pretty little girl, Who was smaller than any girl you have ever seen! Her mother said, “Look she is no bigger than my thumb! I shall call her Thumbelina” Well, a new species of bush-frog, named Raorchestes primarrumpfi, smaller than Thumbelina got discovered recently…