Category: News For Kids
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Spectacular View of the Red Planet
In 2003, NASA launched ongoing Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER). It involved two automated motor vehicles called Rovers exploring surface of the planet Mars after landing. The two rovers are named ‘Spirit’ and ‘Opportunity’. Nasa has recently joined together 817 different images taken by Mars Rover – Opportunity, over a four-month period, to create a spectacularly detailed…
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First ever 3D Planetarium soon in India
A Planetarium is a place where you visit to look and learn all about celestial objects like stars, planets, comets, galaxies and many more. Many planetariums have a dome-shaped projection screen onto which stars, planets and other celestial objects can be made to appear and move. In 3D, these projections on screen will feel…
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Roger Federer wins Wimbledon Title
Roger Federer won his seventh Wimbledon title and 17th Grand Slam title with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 win. The win has pushed Federer to the world No. 1 ranking. Pete Sampras, until now, held the record of 286 weeks at the game’s top which will now be broken by Roger Federer. Also, he now equals tennis…
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Serena Williams wins Wimbledon Womens Championship
Serena won her fifth Wimbledon crown and 14th Grand Slam title.She defeated Radwanska 6-1, 5-7, 6-2. It was Serena’s first Slam victory in two years, after major illness and serious injury threatened to derail her career. “A couple of years ago, when I was in hospital I never thought this was possible. I never…
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Too Lazy to Bathe!
Aren’t there some days where you don’t want to take a bath, but mom just won’t listen. Well now there is a way you can feel refreshed without taking a bath, all thanks to a young South African. Want to know more?.. So this young man has invented a product which can make you clean ,…
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Dalai Lama’s 77th birthday
Thousands of Tibetan exiles and foreigners attended the 77th birthday celebrations of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Himachal Pradesh. The Hindu Reported The Dalai Lama is considered by the Tibetans as a ‘living god’. ‘Dalai Lama’ is the title for the highest ranked spiritual leader among Tibetan buddhists. Dalai means ‘Ocean’ and Lama stands for ‘the…
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Damage by Floods in Assam
Imagine a container with water. Pour some water till the top. What would happen now if you pour some more water than it can hold? Water will overflow to the surroundings. Same happens with rivers. Sometimes rivers get over filled with a lot of extra water. This mostly happens at the time of non stop…
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Ice Age flower blossoms again!
This is really cool. Imagine this, what if you freeze the seeds of a plant and keep it frozen for 30,000 years. Now take them out and plant them. Will they grow? Surprisingly some scientists have recently done this, “They found the fruit of an ancient plant that had been frozen underground in Siberia — a…
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Wimbledon 2012: Update
In Wimbledon men’s singles semi-finals, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic will play against each other in wimbledon 2012 semifinal. It will be the 27th meeting between the two, but the first at Wimbledon. “It is our first grass-court match. We don’t know quite what to expect, I feel it’s a bit of an even ground.”…
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Rare Derecho Storm in United States
On July 1, In eastern U.S, pleasant summer showers suddenly turned into a series of nasty thunderstorms. Sounds like a scene from a movie right? But sadly this is really what had happened. U.S was hit by something what the weathermen (meteorologists) call a ‘Derecho’. Derecho is a severe thunderstorm which is made up of…
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Plants that feed on Underground Animals Found!
“Three species of carnivorous plant that feed on worms underground have been discovered in the Brazilian Savannah.” The Telegraph reported. Scientists have discovered a new type of carnivorous plant that traps and eat its prey underground. So far we knew about a lot of plants that capture the prey in its leaves above the ground.…
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Rock Paper Scissor
Well we all love to spend hours on this game, don’t we ? If you think you are really great at the game, read this. There is a Robot, created by the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory in Japan which will beat you in this game all the time. How can this be? Is it magic? Or is…