Category: News For Kids
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Mt. Fuji is Now a World Heritage Site
Japan’s pride, the snow topped Volcano Mt Fuji is all set to become a World Heritage site. What is a World Heritage site? A World Heritage Site is a natural place or a man made wonder which is very special. It could be a lake, mountain, forest, mountain, island, desert, monument, building, complex, or a city. If…
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Herschel Space Telescope Stops Working
Europe’s Herschel Space Laboratory has run out of liquid helium essentially needed to run Herschel Space Telescope, the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space. The helium was needed to maintain an ultra-low temperature for proper functioning of the telescope. This has come as no surprise to the scientists as the helium reserves for the telescope launched in 2009 had…
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Time to Clean Up Space
The experts at 6th European Conference on Space Debris, held in Darmstadt, Germany have concluded that too much space junk has accumulated in space and that now we should be worrying about cleaning it up. Are you wondering what is this all about? What is space junk or debris? Space junk refers to part or whole pieces…
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Dead Sea Monument Placed Near Mount Everest
Have you ever picked up a beautiful shell or a shiny pebble from the beach, just so you could gift it your good friend – like a memoir? Two friendly nations Nepal and Israel decided that to promote tourism in their countries they would do something remarkable, like erect new monuments that people would love…
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Power of the Oceans!
Hydro-power is not a new term, it has been around for a long time. It means “Energy from water” (hydro means water, and power means energy of course). By constructing dams on the rivers or by placing turbines we have tapped on this energy from water and have converted it into electricity. Almost 17 percent of…
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Satellites or Smartphones?
The Smartphones are getting ready to go where no man has gone before! Well, kind of. NASA sent, on April 21st, three Android smartphones to the space by placing them inside specially designed cube boxes and placing them on a orbit at a distance 240 kilometers from the Earth. These are Android phones made by HTC…
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Meet Microraptor – The Fishy Dinosaur!
A new discovery published in the journal Evolution reports that Microraptor, a four winged dinosaur previously known to feast on small mammals and birds, might have loved eating fish! A team led by University of Alberta, Canada, have found a new fossil of Microraptor in North East China. Now this fossil is remarkable – this…
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Google Glass Not Coming This Year
Google Glass is not coming to a shop this year after all. So all of you have to wait until sometime next year to buy this gadget. Google engineers have confirmed that they are going to be testing the wearable gadget all through the year and making improvements to it before releasing it for sale…
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Man Survives Crocodile Attack!
Yes! A man was lucky enough to survive from the clutches of a saltwater crocodile. This french fisherman named Yoann Galeran was swimming near the town of Nhulunbuy when the incident occured. This crocodile which was 2.5m long bit him in the head, neck and shoulders. He fought furiously and escaped narrowly. He did need stitches for…
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Earth like Planets Found
In a forever quest for looking at the Universe, the scientists have now found two Earth like planets revolving around their host star. Just like earth revolves around the Sun. This host star is 1200 light years away and is called Kepler-62, this star is located in the Constellation Lyra. The two planets are named…
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Happy Birthday to World’s Oldest Person
Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura, who is known as the world’s oldest living person celebrated his 116th birthday today. Mr Kimura was born on 19 April 1897. He worked as a postman until he was 65 years old. After that he took up farming and did so until he was 90. He is in Guinness World…
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Food without Soil and Water
Is it a joke? Since when can we grow plants without soil and water and no plants no food right? A team of researchers at Virginia Tech lled by YH Zhang an associate professor, have been working on a formula to convert cellulose into starch. They were able to do so recently. Almost 20 to…