Category: News For Kids
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Stranded In Space
NASA has two astronauts Mike Hopkins and Karen Nyberg at ISS. The space agency says that it will not be leaving their astronauts without supports because of a US Shutdown. Hey, wait a minute. What is US Shutdown? Well, US budget ends every September 30th. The new budget for the next year is usually passed by…
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Technology to Save Lives
Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis can be very destructive. They can turn buildings and houses into a huge pile of rubble in a matter of seconds. Most of the times people get trapped in this rubble. The rescue team does intensive search operations to find these people. Sadly, sometimes, by the time rescue team locates a…
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Happy Birthday Google!
Today is the 15th birthday of Google. Google celebrates its birthday on 27 September each year. The company is now based in Mountain View, California. Google’s home page has a piñata doodle that the user can hit and collect candies. Fun huh! The internet search company has really diversified the past year. They have been investing in…
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New Jersey Shipwreck Identified
A shipwreck near the coastline of New Jersey was found by fishermen in 1970s. It had been quite a haven for the divers over the past 30 years. However, no one knew the name of the ship. Well, that mystery is finally solved. In June 2013, a team of government and university maritime archaeologists identified the…
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Dream Job at NASA
How about if I tell you that all you have to do as a part of the job is rest in bed for 70 days? Yes. That’s true. Too good to be true? How? Microgravity, that is very weak gravity in space has always been a health concern for astronauts travelling in space for extended periods.…
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Our DNA, Our History
Don’t we all wonder about our ancestors. Many a times our parents share some unique story about our great grandparents who were either freedom fighters or royals. Is there a way of discovering the history of your family tree? Maybe a way to find the migrations that your ancestors did. There is a way. National Geographic’s…
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Mission Mars One
Mars One has to be the most ambitious mission in the history of space. It talks about sending humans to the red planet by year 2023. So whats the big deal about it, you might think ? The big deal is that the mission plans to send four humans to Mars in 2023 not to…
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The Thinnest Glass
Sometimes strange discoveries are done by chance. Imagine their surprise when researchers at Cornell and Germany’s University of Ulm discovered that they had unknowingly created the thinnest glass. Their discovery is recorded in Guinness Book of World Records. David A. Muller, professor of applied and engineering physics and director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell found it.…
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Farming in Space?
What do astronauts eat in space? Till now, astronauts pack their food and carry it to space. The cooked food that they take to space is freeze dried. It means that all the water from the cooked food is drained out, and it is packed in vacuum bags so that it doesn’t get spoiled. This…
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Hurricane Hunters
Most of you must have heard about storm chasers but can someone actually hunt the storm and track then while they are building up. Well, there are drones made by NASA that follow the hurricanes. There has been a lot of opposition on the usage of drones to kill the enemies, but this seems like…
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Spider Silk or Electrical Conductor?
Spider silk is astonishingly strong and sturdy. No wonder Spiderman roams around the city using the spider silk as steel bars. It is finer than a human hair and five times stronger than the steel wire of the same diameter. It is extremely stretchable, and some kind of spider silk can also transmit light. Looking…
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After Curiosity, Now a Robotic Explorer for Moon
NASA has launched another explorer to the moon. This time it is not a human explorer aboard another of NASA’s Apollo mission, but a robotic explorer named LADEE, more on the lines of Mars explorer curiosity. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, LADEE (pronounced “LA’-dee) is about the size of a small car and weighs about 400…