Category: News For Kids
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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…
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Life Exists In Deepest Ocean
The deepest point on the Earth is Mariana Trench in Pacific ocean. It is about 11 Kms or 36,069 Ft deep. The temperature at the bottom is near freezing about 1 to 4 ⁰C . The atmospheric pressure at that depth is thousand times of the atmospheric pressure at sea level. With such harsh conditions in the…
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Mt. Etna Spews Lava
Mount Etna, Europe’s most a active volcano, ejected mile high red hot lava into the sky on Saturday. The lava came out of a new crater created on the south east face of the volcano. Active volcanoes are likely to erupt at any time unlike dormant volcanoes that do not erupt for sometimes even hundreds…
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Solar Storm to Create Stunning Auroras
On March 12, there was a powerful solar storm that originated from a sunspot known as Active Region 1690. In a solar storm, a huge cloud of super heated particles is released from the Sun into the space. This storm though not directed towards the Earth, will surely pass it. When these high energy particles from…
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St. Patrick’s Festival
Ireland. Leprechauns. St. Patrick, The Saint. The St. Patrick festival this year will be celebrated from 14th – 18th March in Dublin, Belfast and London. Big Parades are organised in these cities. Every year 17th March is celebrated as St. Patrick’s day to honor the memory of St. Patrick. He was a great saint working for…
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Boeing Has A Fix For It’s Batteries
Boeing, which had its 787 Dreamliners grounded earlier has fixed its batteries now. The company is confident that the 200,000 hours of testing time put in by their 500 engineers is enough to prove there is no risk of fire or smoke from the new batteries. The batteries were submitted for testing at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)…
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Planet with Water?
Scientists have discovered traces of water on a planet named HR8799c , outside our solar system. The enormous planet is 130 light years away from Earth and about seven times heavier than the largest planet on our solar system, Jupiter. Just to give you an idea how big the planet is, Jupiter is 318…
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Old Sundial Found In Kings’ Valley Egypt
Students and researchers from the University of Basel have found what looks like the remains of one of the oldest portable Sundials, dating back to the 13th century BC. The Sundial was found in the Valley of Kings, Egypt when a team from the University was clearing the entrance to one of the tombs. Valley…
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World Gets a New Pope
Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been declared the new pope. Pope Mario will now be the leader and guide of Catholics around the world. The previous Pope Benedict XVI, had resigned in February. He was 85 years old and his ill health was not allowing him to fulfil the duties of his office.…
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Life On Mars
Before you start imagining people like us living on Mars, let us clarify that NASA has uncovered some evidence that supports the fact that ancient Mars could have had life. NASA’s 2.5 billion dollar Curiosity drilled in February and extracted powder out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater of the…