Category: News For Kids
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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…
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Massive Earthquake in Iran, Pakistan
An earthquake of 7.8-magnitude hit the south-eastern city of Khash, in Iran. This was one of the strongest earthquake to hit Iran in more than 50 years. Since the city of Khash was the epicentre of the earthquake, is very close to Pakistan, the earthquake was strongly felt there. Outer crust of Earth is broken up into…
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Venezuela’s New President-Elect
After hugely popular Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez passed away last month, Nicolas Maduro has been chosen as Venezuela’s New President-Elect. A president-elect is a political candidate who has been elected president but who has not yet been sworn in, or officially taken office. Maduro got 50.8% of votes in presidential election held on Sunday, while opposition…
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Puerto Rico’s New Law to Protect Turtles
Puerto Rico comprises an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands. The island’s coastline is a huge nesting site for the leatherback turtles. The leatherback turtle are the world’s largest turtle, and sadly are highly endangered. For years developers had been wanting to build hotels close to the…
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Venice Bans Polluting Boats
Venice is also known as “City of Water”, “City of Canals” and “The Floating City” because the Italian city that is built on 117 small islands that are separated by 150 canals. A canal is a kind of “road of water” made by humans to get things from one place to another. Grand Canal, is one of…
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North Pole Marathon
Running a marathon is a not an easy feat at all. Imagine a marathon in arctic conditions!! Not many of you must have heard about it but North pole marathon is indeed one of the toughest races on the earth where participants have to run for miles in deep snow and below freezing…
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23 Laguages In Few Weeks?
Yes! That’s what a 17 year old boy, Timothy Doner from New York has done. He learnt 23 languages just in a matter of few weeks. Even Doner did not know about his hidden talent until he started learning Herbrew, which he easily picked up within a week!! Now Doner is being called by experts as ‘hyperpolyglot‘ often…
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Tornado Hits Mississipi
A powerful tornado struck Mississipi, a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. It destroyed many homes and snapped power lines causing power cuts. A tornado is a violent rotating column of air that forms between a thunderstorm and the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of huge destruction with wind speeds of up…
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Kenya Gets a New President
Uhuru Kenyatta is has been sworn in as Kenya’s new president. The 51-year-old will be Kenya’s youngest president. He replaces Kenya’s ex president Mwai Kibaki. Mr Kenyatta is the son of Kenya’s founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, and is heir to one of the largest fortunes in Kenya. He has previously served in Kenyan…
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Margaret Thatcher Passes Away
Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, passed away on April 8 from a heart stroke. She was 87 years old. Ms. Thatcher was one of the most influential politicians of her times. She was a confident leader. Even as a young child just nine years of age, when Margaret received a prize in school…