Category: News For Kids
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Curiosity ready to vaporize the Martian rocks
Curiosity has a Chemcam laser that can emit rays that vanish the target in an instant and reveal interesting information about it. Whoa! Don’t you wish you had that power where you could vanish a target?? Especially all that homework :) The Mars rover has selected its first target which is most probably a typical Mars basalt – basaltic…
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“Super Mom” galaxy found
What is the name of the galaxy that our solar system is a part of? Milky Way. Now Scientists have found a new galaxy that they’re calling a ‘super mom’. This new galaxy makes more stars in a day than our galaxy make in an year. No wonder it is called the “super mom” :…
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Yuvraj Singh back in action
Cricketer Yuvraj Singh who was recently diagnosed with cancer and underwent treatment at the Cancer Research Institute in Boston, USA has been selected by BCCI to play 2012 world twenty20. This international cricket tournament, will be held in Sri Lanka from september 18. He will play after a long time when India will play Afghanistan…
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What is happening in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is a nation that has suffered a lot in the past and still is suffering. Let us try and understand what is happening in Afghanistan. First of all, who are the Afghanis? Geographically, Afghanistan lies in between Central Asia, the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent. It is therefore a nation made up of many different nationalities…
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India’s own Mission to Mars
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently made an announcement that India will send its own mission to Mars in near future. “This spaceship to Mars will be a huge step for us in the area of science and technology,” Dr. Singh said. India will be the sixth country to launch a mission to the Red Planet…
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Eyeless Spidey? Howdy?
We know that a lot of insects are blind but not to have eyes at all..Yes! scientists have now discovered an eyeless huntsman spider. Sinopoda scurion is the first eyeless huntsman spider in the world. This is indeed one of the oddest spiders ever discovered. This species has been shown to have adapted to living in the cave…
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Sunita Williams wishes Indians from Space
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams wished all the indians a very happy independence day from her temporary home, the International Space Station(ISS). Sunita also proudly unfurled the Indian flag. Her Indian roots lie in Gujarat as her father is from Gujarat.”You know that I am half Indian. My father is from Gujarat. So, I am familiar…
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Growing Concern over Arctic Meltdown
Arctic is the name of the region that is around the north pole. The weather in arctic is mostly very cold winters and short cool summers. In recent times, due to global warming, arctic glaciers and ice caps have been fast melting. But what is shocking now is that arctic ice is melting at its fastest pace ever.…
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India’s 66th Independence Day
Every year on the 15th of August, Indians are reminded that on this day years ago we got our freedom back. Freedom that was snatched away from us. Long ago, the Britishers came to our country as traders and requested if they could do business with us, that they could be guests for some time in our…
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Canary Islands Fire Uncontrollable
The Canary Islands Wildfire are on the verge of becoming a disaster now as the firefighters are unable to control these fires. Five planes and seven helicopters are supporting firefighters on the ground. “About 25% of the Garajonay nature reserve, a Unesco World Heritage site, has been destroyed by fire. The area measures about 750 hectares (1,853…
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Wild Fires on Canary Islands
Spain is in trouble as the Firefighters are fighting a forest fire on La Gomera in Spain’s Canary Islands. A Wildfire/forest fire is any uncontrolled fire in deep dense forest. Wildfires often start unnoticed. These fires are usually triggered by lightning or accidents. They spread quickly, igniting trees, and homes which are in the nearby areas. The worst affected area on La Gomera…
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Curiosity gets a ‘brain transplant’
The Curiosity rover is exploring red planet a little bit more every day. It has been transmitting back to Earth latest images that show the environment around its landing site on Mars. Curiosity will make the red planet its home for next two years. It will spend its time taking samples from the surface of mars…