Category: Kids News Archive

This week, the United Nations Environment Program gave a Champions of the Earth award to Ant Forest. The Chinese company encourages people to do things like take public transportation, and rewards them with green energy points. Enough earned points, helps a tree get planted. In 3 years, Ant Forest has planted 122,000,000 trees!

Reed Hayes started a company called Rendever, that helps people in hospitals and senior living centers go scuba diving, hiking, or travel, with virtual reality headsets! He discovered that patients with dementia, really enjoyed experiencing virtual reality. Families can even upload videos, to let them attend a wedding or help them remember the past!

Today is an exciting day: National Punctuation Day! Try to write a story that uses all the punctuation marks, but use them correctly. Just because a word ends in “s”, doesn’t mean it needs an apostrophe! It’s also Cherries Jubilee Day, which is a fun dessert because the cherries are set on fire!

Students at Indiana University used 60 gallons of wheat paste, and comment cards from Martin’s grocery store, to make a 14-foot tall papier-mâché sculpture. Martin’s brought the comment cards to the University’s Fine Arts Club, and asked them to create a work of art. The abstract artwork is the tallest papier-mâché sculpture in the world!

Lots of important experiments take place at the International Space Station. One that will happen soon involves baking cookies! The Zero G Kitchen will use Nanoracks in their space oven, that will allow cookies to expand in all directions. Since gravity won’t be pulling them down on a tray, they’ll probably be spherical blobs!

A black material 10 times blacker than the blackest black, was created because of an artist at MIT. Diemut Strebe wanted to cover a 16-carat diamond, with carbon nanotubes. Diamonds and carbon are made from the same molecules, but arranged differently. The carbon-nanotube-coated gemstone absorbs all light, becoming a black void, even under a microscope!

Today is Family Day. Have a family game night, or at least gather everyone together for one meal! It’s also Dogs In Politics Day, originally called Checkers Day, after President Nixon’s dog. U.S. Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Senior, Clinton, Bush Junior, and Obama also had dogs in their First Families!

Pumpkin spice everything has been popping up for a few weeks now, but today is the official first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. The autumnal equinox occurs when the sun is directly in line with the Earth’s equator. In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s the vernal equinox: the first day of spring!

Dryer Vent Wizard is a company in Michigan, that cleans lint out of clothes dryers. They decided to have a little fun, and make a gigantic ball of lint. All the fluff accumulated into a 690-pound lint-ball, easily breaking the world record. It was then lit on fire, and extinguished by the fire department.

Josh Thompson had to go to a meeting, where he knew he was going to get fired. In New Zealand, you can bring along a support person or animal, so Josh brought a support clown! Joe the Clown pretended to cry so Josh wouldn’t have to, and made balloon animals to cheer him up!