Category: News For Kids
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Falling Faster Than The Speed of Sound
Alan Eustace, a computer scientist at Google broke the world record for the highest-altitude free-fall jump. Alan went up in a hot air balloon actually filled with 35,000 cubic feet of helium gas and jumped off from the middle of the stratosphere, 26 miles from the Earth. It took him 15 minutes to reach back the Earth’s…
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MOM Turns One Month Old
Hmm.. How can MOM be one-month-old? All of our moms are older than us, right? Well, we are not talking about a mom or someone’s mother. We are talking about India’s new Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM); that sent a satellite called Mangalyaan to keep an eye on Mars. The mission just turned one-month-old after its…
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Who is Moana Waialiki?
Disney Animation Studios announced yesterday that they are planning to launch Moana, an animated comedy adventure movie for kids, in late 2016. The movie is based on the story of Moana Waialiki, its main character who is a lively teenage girl-navigator from Polynesia, around Hawaii Islands. The movie will be directed by the same folks who did The Little Mermaid,…
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Kangaroos Did Not Always Hop
Did you know that kangaroos did not always hop? About 30,000 years ago some of them walked! Yes, they were so big (about three times as big as the kangaroos today) that they could only walk. These giant kangaroos were maybe two meters tall and weighed 240 kilograms, as claimed by researchers of Brown University, USA who published their findings…
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One Whale Of a Jump
A humpback whale was captured on camera jumping out of the ocean waters near California coast, in the US. It seems it was jumping out to high-five a sea gull! Now that is what we call One Whale of a Jump! The amazing picture was shot by German photographer Mario Nonaka on a trip around the bay, Caters News…
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Nobel Peace Prize for Malala
Everybody has a right to education. You kids already know that going to school is very important and a must. However, there are some kids that are not able to go to school. Sometimes because they do not have enough money to pay for school and sometimes bad people do not allow them to go to school. A…
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The Ebola Outbreak
There is a lot of news about the deadly virus Ebola that is highly contagious. According to WHO ( World Health Organisation), this virus has attacked around 1600 people so far in West Africa. The affected countries are Nigeria, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Two US health workers are being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.…
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Google Doodle Fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyuZ8ta7j8I Football fever has not only gripped real world but also the internet. Google is celebrating FIFA world cup 2014 with a new doodle everyday. Google kick started the world cup event with an interactive doodle. Here are some more FIFA 2014 google doodles: Interesting isn’t? Do you know why does google doodles? Actually even before that let me ask…
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Coffee Grounds and Biofuel
Anyone for coffee? This has to be one of the first questions that grown ups ask each other when they get up in the morning. Most people around the world like to kick start their day with a hot cup of this brewed beverage. But not very far into the future, we might have another kind of coffee fans – Cars!…
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2014 FIFA World Cup
Are you ready for your 90 minutes of power packed action on the field every day? We are talking about FIFA 2014 Football World cup which kick starts this week from June 12th. We can’t wait to see the world class players like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, all charged up, to strike winning goals for their…
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These Toads are Poisonous
Madagascar is a safe haven for unique species that are not found anywhere else on the Earth. This safe haven is now in trouble. Why? It is because of Asian common toads or Duttaphrynus melanostictus. These toads that are native to South East Asia were first spotted in March near Toamasina, Madagascar’s largest seaport. From Asia to Africa?…
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Elections in India
India is in a race to pick its new leader – the prime minister of India. In India, the prime minister is elected after every five years. India’s population is 1.2 billion, out of which 81.4 crores will cast their vote to elect their new leader. The number of voters in 2014 has increased by 10 crores since…