Author: Kinooze Learning
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Wimbledon 2012: Update
In Wimbledon men’s singles semi-finals, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic will play against each other in wimbledon 2012 semifinal. It will be the 27th meeting between the two, but the first at Wimbledon. “It is our first grass-court match. We don’t know quite what to expect, I feel it’s a bit of an even ground.”…
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How do snakes get poison on their teeth?
Before I begin to answer that question, tell me why do snakes even need to have poison at all? Here is why. Snakes use their poisonous bite to protect themselves from predators. Also, snakes are usually smaller and slower than their prey. Their venom makes it easy for them to catch the prey since after poisoning the prey…
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Magical Sun – Changing Color
What colour is the rising sun in the morning? – Dark orange What colour is sun during the day? – White What colour is the sun in the evening, just before setting? – Dark orange again. How magical is that! But how does that happen?? Do you know that the light around us – the…
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Rare Derecho Storm in United States
On July 1, In eastern U.S, pleasant summer showers suddenly turned into a series of nasty thunderstorms. Sounds like a scene from a movie right? But sadly this is really what had happened. U.S was hit by something what the weathermen (meteorologists) call a ‘Derecho’. Derecho is a severe thunderstorm which is made up of…
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Plants that feed on Underground Animals Found!
“Three species of carnivorous plant that feed on worms underground have been discovered in the Brazilian Savannah.” The Telegraph reported. Scientists have discovered a new type of carnivorous plant that traps and eat its prey underground. So far we knew about a lot of plants that capture the prey in its leaves above the ground.…
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Rock Paper Scissor
Well we all love to spend hours on this game, don’t we ? If you think you are really great at the game, read this. There is a Robot, created by the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory in Japan which will beat you in this game all the time. How can this be? Is it magic? Or is…
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Why Animals can’t Speak?
If I ask you why animals can not speak, what will be your guess? 1. Don’t animals have a tongue? 2. Don’t animals have a voice box? 3. Animals want to speak, but they can’t? The first and the second one are not true. Most animals do have a tongue. Most of them also have a…
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Olympic Sport: Beach Volleyball
Imagine playing a sport on the sandy beach, with fresh cold air coming from the ocean to refresh you. This sport is Beach Volleyball also known as Sand Volleyball. Beach Volleyball is very similar to Indoor Volleyball where the object of the game is to send the ball over the net on the opponent’s court so…
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Plants that are not vegetarian
There are many plants that eat insects or other animals. So here you are eating plants and being a vegetarian where as some plants are eating meat…Curious?? Let’s talk about meat-eating carnivorous plants. These plants have adapted to grow in places where the soil is weak in nutrients specially Nitrogen. There are around 630 such…
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Birds that Can’t Fly
Do you know that all birds have wings and feathers but still some of them can’t fly? You guessed it right – we are talking about flightless birds! As the name suggests flightless birds are those that do not have the ability to fly. The best known flightless birds are the ostrich, emu, cassowary, rhea, kiwi, and penguin. Now, you know…
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Bounce like a Bouncy Ball
Guess this one. Where are you if you are bouncing effortlessly like a bouncy ball, again and again, without hurting your knees or ankle and without getting tired? You are most probably jumping on a Trampoline !! Have you ever wondered how trampoline is made? If you notice, trampolines have a rectangular or a circular…
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Salty Ocean beneath Titan?
Did you know that Saturn has 62 Moons!! What a fascinating view in the night sky that must be :) The largest moon of Saturn is Titan. Titan is so big in size that if it orbited the sun instead of Saturn, it would probably be a planet. A team of international scientists now say…