Category: News For Kids
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Biggest Christmas Lights Display
Over 1.2 million Christmas lights in a 3-D setup spread over 41000 square feet! To see this Christmas extravaganza, you have to be in Canberra, the capital city of Australia. For those of you who can not make it there, have a look at the video: The man behind the feat is David Richards, a Canberra resident…
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NASA’s Orion – Flight to the Future
NASA has named its new spacecraft ‘Orion’ quite aptly. The Greek name Orion means ‘rising in the sky’. NASA’s next generation spacecraft Orion, is built to rise in the sky, to carry humans into the deep space and eventually to Mars. NASA is planning to launch a test flight on December 5, 2014, which is today! The test flight…
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Rare Stone Age Axe Discovered
In Southern Denmark, the construction of the Femern Belt link, was under way. The Femern Belt link is a tunnel that will connect the island of Fehmarn, Germany, with the Danish island of Lolland. One day, at the construction site, some workers bumped into something different while digging the ground. It seemed like some tool…
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Google Spoon
What if you have Parkinson’s, And you like your food tons. Can’t eat with a shaky hand, One thing you can’t stand. Once in a blue moon, Comes a magic spoon. That makes you eat without spill, It’s possible! You can and you will! Millions of people around the world on old age suffer from Parkinson’s…
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Asteroid Mining Will Begin Soon
If you thought that asteroid mining is far away in the future, you are wrong. It can happen much sooner than you think. We have been mining the Earth for ages now and using the natural resources for our purposes. Now it is time to go and extract raw materials from asteroids and other minor…
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Deadly Snow Storm Cuts like a Knife in US
Buffalo in US was waiting for its usual share of snow.It gets a lot of snow every year. But this year it was different. On Tuesday, all fifty states recorded below freezing temperatures and Winter Storm Knife deposited over five feet of snow out of nowhere in Buffalo, NY. People were stranded, stuck on roads…
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A Sea Diver Who Always Puts On his Trunks
Well, the sea diver that we are talking about always moves around with his trunk. Wonder why? It is attached to him.. Any guess who that could be? It a 63-year-old elephant named Rajan. Not many elephants swim this way. Elephants love to play with water but are not keen swimmers. In 1970s around ten elephants…
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Hawaiian Volcano Lava creeps into a House
Aloha! Hawaii! The fresh flowers and the calm waters is what one mostly thinks of when we talk of this island. But all is not that hunky dory!! The largest island amongst an archipelago of eight major islands, is home to probably the most active volcano on earth – Kilauea (pronounced as Kil-uh-wai-aa) volcano. Kilauea…
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The Solar-Powered Floating Schools
Where there is a will there is a way! Whoever said those words was so right. A perfect example of this is a young architect Mohammed Rezwan in Bangladesh. In 1998, he was shocked by the fact that so many children are dropping out of school. He started Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangsthaa ( Shidhulai is the…
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Mass Whale Stranding on New Zealand Beach
A mystery that has left scientists baffled for years – a phenomenon where whales or dolphins swim to shallow waters and then getting stranded on the beach. Why do they do that? Scientists guess that there might be two reasons either the whales get sick and swim to shallow waters for safety or they lose…
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Rainbow Punches a Hole in The Cloud..
Something bizarre recently happened over the skies of the little seaside town of Wonthaggi, Victoria in Australia. The rainbow and the cloud had a fight, and the angry rainbow punched a hole in the cloud. What did the cloud do then? It just cried and cried, and its tears fell down on the ground as snowfall. Little pixies…
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Olive Ridley Sea Turtles At a Beach Near You!
Well, it is nesting time for sea turtles around the Indian Ocean. And we are so excited to tell you about that in advance. The Marine Wildlife Sanctuary in the state of Odisha, India is expecting thousands of olive-shelled sea turtles, or Olive Ridleys as they are called, to emerge out of the Indian Ocean anytime now. Going by the past…