Category: Facts For Kids
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The Mystery named Mona Lisa
Art or a mystery? As a child, one always has a connection to art and colours. Whether it’s a sketch on the page of a drawing book or the wall of the house, its special. Art is for everyone. It shows us how different people look at same things differently. Some people practice a lot of art…
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Astrostat – India’s First Space Observatory
28 September 2015 was a special day for India. The country’s space program had added another feat to its list. They launched their first space observatory and called it ASTROSTAT. Astrostat was launched from Sriharikota, in the Southern part of India. What is a space observatory? In 1990, the Hubble telescope was sent into space. This was an…
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The Power Paper
Power is the energy that makes things around us function. Power can be electric power which makes our devices run. It can be solar power – energy of the sun, hydropower – energy of the water, or some other form of energy that we use in our daily lives. Paper, as we know are the sheets we write on. What is power paper? Is…
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The Immortal Jellyfish
Is it possible to live forever? Witches and wizards in Harry Potter save their souls in a magical object. They then go on to live forever. Pinocchio was brought back to life by The Blue Fairy, who was immortal. Immortal means to live forever. Jonathan Swift’s famous book Gulliver’s Travels had an island of Immortals where…
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Virtual Fossils
You must have heard or read about fossils. Fossils are the remains of dead animals and plants that have remained preserved for millions of years. You may have even seen a fossil or two in museums. Do you know about that Woolly Mammoth that was found buried under layers of ice? The fossil was found…
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The Internet of Things
“I’m right at the corner, please switch on the lights,” says the car to the house. “Run the load,” the cell phone reminds the washing machine. “Well, you could cook up a spicy bean and tomato soup today,” the refrigerator gives you a dinner idea. Sounds like an exciting world, doesn’t it? Where even things…
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The Girl Who Fought for Education – Malala Yousafzai
Nelson Mandela said: Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. In 2014, the Nobel peace prize made news for a different reason. Two persons had won the award. But that was not all. One of the two was Malala Yousafzai. Malala was only 17 years old when she won the…
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What is Biometric Authentication?
Can any two people have same fingerprints? Can your voice be exactly same as mine? Can identical twins have the same pattern of the retina? None of the above can be same for two different people. Every person has some characteristics that are unique to them. Fingerprint, for example, is one of them. Biometrics is the…
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Learning From The Ants
Cars that turn into robots and then back into cars on their own. Don’t the ‘Transformers’ simply thrill you? But then, isn’t all that just a fantasy? What if I tell you that nature has such a self-assembling machine? The remarkable ant We often dismiss the tiny little ant, crawling on the ground around us.…
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What is Augmented Reality?
What if you could bring your Lego toys to life without actually assembling the blocks? What if you could, without opening the box know exactly how the 3d model will be? How about your favorite book coming to life with its characters moving and talking? Augmented Reality can bring a lot of regular boring stuff to…
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Titan – Another Place Like Home
Saturn, the only planet with rings in our Solar System, has 53 moons! Imagine that! Most of Saturn’s moons are small like our Moon. However, one of its moons called the Titan is as big as a planet. Titan is the largest of Saturn’s moons and the second largest in our Solar System. Saturn’s moons…
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Algae Biofuel
Don’t we all know that burning petrol is bad for our environment? Even diesel and other fuels are no good. They all pollute our air. Air pollution levels in most cities is too high. Added to this, the price of these fuels are rising as their supply is reducing. There has been an urgent need…