Category: Kids News Archive

The fictional country of Wakanda, the home of the superhero Black Panther, was created by Marvel Comics. According to the US Department of Agriculture website, it’s also one of the US’s free trade partners! Oops! They had been using the make-believe country to test out their system’s data tracker, and forgot to remove it.

Billboards along the highway, are usually advertisements. Daan Roosengaarde developed a new kind of road sign, that eats smog! The billboards are coated with a resin that attracts pollution, and turns it into oxygen when hit by sunlight. It generates the same amount of oxygen as 30 trees, so it’s perfect for cities!

A family in Georgia decorated their Christmas tree with about a dozen owl ornaments. They were shocked to discover, that the tree had come with a bonus ornament. A living owl was hiding in the tree! The screech owl had been there all week. He’s been released safely, to screech happily through the night.

United States President Trump, was impeached yesterday. Impeachment is when a government official is charged with a crime. The US Congress is split into the House of Representatives and the Senate. After representatives vote to impeach a president, senators vote on whether to remove them from office, and let the Vice President take over.

Today is Hard Candy Day! Most hard candy is made by boiling sugar syrup, adding flavorings, then pouring it into molds to cool and harden. The first lemon and peppermint candies were prescribed for stomach ailments. It’s also Look For An Evergreen Day. Evergreen plants like pine trees, holly, and bamboo, stay green all year!

In California, a line of cars stopped outside Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, to watch a bear. The bear must have also been curious, because he came over to look in a car’s rear window, then climbed onto the trunk! He quickly jumped off, and went back to watching everyone watch him.

The Idaho man who holds over 100 world records, just broke another record. David Rush stood on a balance board, catching tennis balls. He caught 67 balls in 30 seconds, without falling off! David keeps setting records, to promote STEM education. Ashrita Furman holds the record for the most world records however, at over 600!

Pigeons wearing cowboy hats, have been wandering the streets of Las Vegas Nevada. Cluck Norris and Coolamity Jane look mighty cute, but the hats are glued to the poor pigeons’ heads. A pigeon rescue group, Lofty Hopes, is working to capture both birds, to safely remove the hats so they can fly properly again.

A student brought a piece of birch pitch, that had been used as chewing gum thousands of years ago, to a paleogeneticist, wondering if DNA could be retrieved from it. The gum held enough DNA, to find out that a Stone Age woman with dark hair and blue eyes had chewed it, 5700 years ago!

Today is Bake Cookies Day! Here’s the easiest recipe. Mix one cup of sugar, and one cup of peanut butter, with one egg. Press balls of dough with a fork to make a criss-cross pattern. Bake at 350 degrees, for 10 minutes! Whatever cookies you decide to bake, don’t forget to save some for me!