Category: News For Kids
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Extinct Lizard not Extinct anymore
A PhD student of Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES) and his team recently spotted a rare lizard in Orissa. The lizard, Jeypore ground gecko, was thought to be extinct as it was last spotted in 1877 by a British colonel RH Beddome. Scientists are thrilled with the rediscovery as it does not happen everyday that species, thought to…
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Tornado hits Bangladesh
A monstrous tornado hit the South East Bangladesh on Friday tearing through about 20 villages in its way. So far 21 people are dead and more than 200 injured. The tornado destroyed many houses, blocked roads, overturned buses and cut out power supply – doing a lot of damage there. It will take many weeks…
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Were you Lost Mr. Camel?
Camel , “The ship of desert”, finds lost people right? You think of camel and you think of dry and hot desert. Would you believe me if I said that camels flourished in the arctic? Fallen out of your chair yet? Believe me or not, the scientists (or paleontologists) in Canada recently made a startling discovery. They…
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The Earth Hour
Earth hour is a global movement that brings awareness that we care about our planet and can participate to save it. As the global warming increases, World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund (WWF) organised the Earth Hour on March 23rd. Australia’s biggest city, Sydney, has switched off its lights for…
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Curiosity to Rest in April
Don’t worry! There is nothing wrong with our beloved Mars rover. Curiosity will rest because it will not be receiving any command or signals from NASA during this time due to occurrence of a solar conjunction. Solar conjunction occurs when the sun passes between the Earth and another planet. Mars solar conjunction happens once about once every…
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Belgian Mathematician wins Abel Prize
Not many of you must have heard about the Abel Prize. But you will be surprised to know that it is an extremely prestigious honor and often also described as the “mathematician’s Nobel prize”. Remember that the Nobel Prize is not awarded in the field of mathematics. The Abel Prize was established in 2001 by the Government of Norway…
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What made the Dinosaurs Disappear?
Till date the scientists believed that it was an asteroid or a huge volcanic eruption that wiped out the dinosaurs. Recently, after a lot of research it was concluded that the culprit, maybe, was a speeding comet. Now, some of you might be wondering what is the difference between an asteroid and a comet? Asteroids are made up of metals…
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YouTube hit a Billion
I don’t think that there is anyone who does not know about YouTube. You can watch your favorite cartoons, songs, educational videos and any information in form of videos on YouTube. Well, now YouTube is celebrating its success as they had 1 billion ( Do you know the number of zeros in a billion?) people that watched…
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Mysterious Prawn Deaths
Millions of prawns have been washed ashore in Coronel city, in Chile. The city is about 530km (330 miles) from the capital, Santiago. The scientists are suspecting that the strange sad phenomenon could be because of change in water temperature or its oxygen levels. For one it could be the local power plants that use the sea water…
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No Texting While Driving
Are you texting while driving? Should you be doing that? Never! Now there is a new system that makes it impossible for you to drive the car. How? Well, a new device called ORIGOSafe stops people from texting while driving. If you text the car stops. To start the car, drivers must insert their smartphones into ORIGOSafe.…
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The Telling of The Tales!
Long before there were storybooks, television or the iPads to tell the tales, there were grandmothers, great grandmothers and chubby aunts. They all kept the children entertained by spinning tales. Fancy imaginative tales about the sun, the moon, animals, prince and princesses. That was the world of oral story telling. While we have many alternatives to storytelling…
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Curiosity’s Pleasant Accident
Sometimes accidents can be pleasant too. You bumping into a friend by accident! Finding a penny in the sand by accident! Curiosity rover Mars recently walked over a piece of rock by accident. But to everybody’s pleasant surprise, the rock named Tintina, broke open to reveal its white colour from inside. So what does this…