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A NASA spacecraft will aim straight for the sun next year bearing the name of the scientist who predicted the existence of solar wind — the intense flow of charged particles or plasma from the sun which releases them into space like a supersonic wind NASA announced Wednesday that the redhot mission would be named after... |
They’re back The Cleveland Cavaliers are playing the Golden State Warriors in the National Basketball Association NBA championship series starting Thursday night To review The teams have met in the past two NBA Finals In 2015 Golden State won a tight sixgame series Last year the Cavaliers down three games to one rallie... |
Fifteen spellers have advanced to the primetime finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee where they’ll test their knowledge of Webster’s Unabridged dictionary Scripps usually takes about 10 spellers to the final rounds but the competition was paused with 15 kids left after more than four grueling hours onstage Thurs... |
“I thought it felt good” the now 9yearold said of the squishy stretchy substance her cousin had brought to their grandparents’ house So Hannah asked the cousin to teach her how to make it She then experimented with colors and glitter just for fun “I brought it to school one day and this girl asked me to make it for her... |
Commander Cathy Martin wears a militarystyle uniform flies a plane and works out of an Air Force installation — Hangar 5 of MacDill Air Force Base in Florida to be precise But instead of hunting bad guys in one of her unit’s WP3D Orion propeller planes she hunts weather Very bad weather “As most people who’ve been on a... |
Your body works thanks to cells — trillions of them — doing their jobs Some make chemicals to fight infection Others make tears to protect your eyes Still others make proteins to help you grow You might ask how this happens To understand think of cells as microscopic factories Factories typically contain people machine... |
Pop star Ariana Grande said Friday that she will hold a benefit concert in Manchester for the victims of Monday’s suicide bombing at her show in the British city Grande 23 said in a message on her Instagram account that a date for the concert had not been worked out Monday’s bombing which killed 22 people and injured m... |
A computer beat China’s top player of go one of the last games machines have yet to master for a second time Thursday a sign that the field of artificial intelligence is advancing faster than expected An IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997 But many go players expected ... |
Samesex marriage is not allowed anywhere in Asia but that is set to change soon thanks to the island nation of Taiwan On Wednesday the country’s Constitutional Court ruled in favor of gay marriage saying that Taiwan’s legal definition of marriage — as being only between a man and a woman — violated articles of the cons... |
Clambering onto an ostrich for a ride used to be popular among tourists in a South African town known as the “ostrich capital of the world” Not so much anymore Two major ostrich farms in the Oudtshoorn area have stopped offering ostrich rides to tourists responding to concerns from European clients and others about the... |
At 43 he was the youngest man ever elected president of the United States Everything about John F Kennedy seemed young and hip — his thick hair his cool sunglasses his stylish wife and two small children his love of touch football games Even the name he gave his presidency the New Frontier told Americans to buckle up f... |
Nearly five years after Hurricane Sandy plunged a roller coaster into the sea in what became one of the storm’s most enduring images the ride has been replaced — safely inland this time Hydrus opened this month at the Casino Pier amusement park in New Jersey built above the beach rather than out over the water to preve... |
After school fifthgrader Sophia Lysantri can often be found hanging out with about 50 longnecked adorable friends in Woodbine Maryland Sophia helps her family raise and care for alpacas Native to the Andes Mountains in South America alpacas are domesticated camelids — not wild — and are related to camels and llamas The... |
As someone who has studied bobcats for almost four decades wildlife ecologist John Litvaitis remembers many times returning from the field without spotting a single one of these solitary and shy creatures that often hunt at dusk But bobcat numbers are rising and they have become more comfortable around humans Joining t... |
The school year is almost over Are you planning a summer vacation or something closer to home such as a trip to your favorite pool KidsPost wants to go with you It’s easy to be a part of the Summer of KidsPost just like the kids in these photos from last year They traveled all across the globe to ancient cities and far... |
As a blind woman Ann Edie has relied on her hiphigh miniature horse for 14 years to guide her through life’s obstacles The fuzzy blackandwhite service pony named Panda has led Edie across busy streets has fetched her house keys and has even stood quietly in restaurants while she ate her meals So when Panda was the one ... |
The Washington Nationals have the best record in the National League but they also have a big problem their bullpen Those are the relief pitchers who come in during the late innings to get the final few outs So far this season the Nats bullpen has not been very good Washington relief pitchers have given up more than fi... |
When researchers traveled to a tiny uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches Almost all of the garbage they found on Henderson Island was made of plastic There were toy soldiers dominoes toothbrushes and hundreds ... |
Have you ever wanted really wanted to write about something that happened to you That’s how Ruth Behar felt and her memories led to her first novel “Lucky Broken Girl” Fiftyone years ago — when she was 9 years old — Behar’s leg was badly broken in a car accident To help her heal properly the doctor encased most of her ... |
Two DCarea students are among the 10 finalists at the 29th National Geographic Bee which is being held this week in Washington Max Garon a seventhgrader at Sidwell Friends is representing the District for the second year in a row “I was surprised to make it this far” Max told KidsPost “I guess I prepared better than la... |
Imagine a flying car Does it look like a fancy sports car with foldable wings Or a Jet Skilike craft that seems to float above water That sports carplane combo is called the AeroMobil Flying Car The latest model — which can be ready to fly in less than three minutes — was previewed recently with a promised arrival of 2... |
First lady Melania Trump announced Monday that her son Barron will attend a private Episcopal school in Maryland beginning this fall The announcement answered one of the lingering questions surrounding the first family’s unusual living arrangement The first lady and 11yearold Barron have been living at Trump Tower in N... |
Malaysia has seized 330 endangered tortoises that were smuggled into the country customs officials at Kuala Lumpur airport said Monday Five plowshare and 325 Indian Star tortoises had been flown into the Southeast Asian country from Madagascar on May 14 and were documented in the flight’s manifest as stones airport cus... |
Erzsebet Nemeth’s Fourthgrade class at the school St John the Evangelist in Severna Park Maryland is the May Class of KidsPost Her 21 students are avid readers who admire their moms want the power to fly and hope to visit Hawaii We will publish just one more Class of KidsPost this school year If you would like your cla... |
Pope Francis and pilgrims from around the world flocked Friday to a Catholic shrine town in Portugal to honor two poor shepherd children whose visions of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago marked one of the most important events of the 20thcentury Catholic Church Francis arrived in Portugal on Friday afternoon to celebrate ... |
A rare Harry Potter prequel handwritten by author JK Rowling on a postcard has been stolen police said Friday as they appealed for help from fans across the world The 800word story set three years before Harry Potter is born sold for about 32000 at a charity auction in 2008 The story along with some jewelry was stolen ... |
In just a few years wellmannered selfdriving robotaxis will share the roads with reckless lawbreaking human drivers That prospect is causing headaches for the people developing the robotaxis A selfdriving car would be programmed to drive at the speed limit — which humans frequently exceed by 10 to 15 miles per hour Sel... |
Washington basketball fans have two reasons to be excited The Wizards are still alive in the National Basketball Association NBA playoffs and the Mystics should be very good this WNBA season The Mystics made a blockbuster trade to acquire Elena Delle Donne over the offseason Delle Donne is one of the best female player... |
While fidget spinners keep on spinning a new trend is oozing through middle schools nationwide slime a sticky homemade version of Silly Putty Made from simple household ingredients including glue contactlens solution and shaving cream slime has become such a hit that some stores are running out of glue and offering sli... |
Diego Rosales was so terrified during his dental appointments when he was 4 that he kept biting his dentist Today the 9yearold is far calmer soothed by the presence of “Zucca” a black Labrador that helps children like him with autism face one of their worst fears A visit to the dentist can be daunting for any child but... |
If there’s a bigscreen character you liked a few years ago chances are that person is back for this summer of sequels “Wimpy Kid” Greg Heffley can’t escape embarrassment in “The Long Haul” The webslinging superhero returns — but younger this time — for “SpiderMan Homecoming” And Jack Sparrow is still alive for the fift... |
Ten students who shared their time and talents to serve others were honored Monday at the national Spirit of Community Awards in Washington The volunteers who are ages 11 to 18 aided the homeless raised money for cancer research and provided underprivileged kids with school supplies among other projects They were chose... |
French Presidentelect Emmanuel Macron began his transition to power Monday a day after he handily defeated Marine Le Pen the candidate for the ultraconservative National Front party in a runoff election Macron who appeared with current President François Hollande at a World War II remembrance ceremony announced a visi... |
After I returned from a long walk I noticed what looked like bees flying around a small hole in the ground Without thinking I picked up a small rock and tossed it at the hole to see if I could make a “basket” Two seconds later the buzzing insects came after me like a squadron of jets attacking Godzilla By the time I go... |
Marbled paper coverings for fancy books and journals have been around for centuries The paper features colors swirling around each other unevenly to make a unique pattern But it’s not just paper that can be turned into something beautiful through marbling We’d bet that a certain someone would love a bouquet of flowers ... |
Crayola’s new crayon color will be based on a blue pigment discovered in 2009 Scientists at Oregon State University accidentally discovered the brilliant blue color when they were experimenting with materials that could be used in electronics Crayola said Friday that it’s partnering on the new crayon with Oregon State ... |
The call of the wild is getting harder to hear Peaceful natural sounds — bird songs rushing rivers and rustling grass — are sometimes being drowned out by noise from people in many of America’s protected parks and wilderness areas a new study finds Scientists measured sound levels at 492 places from city parks to remot... |
“Star Wars” fans with deep pockets might consider it a golden opportunity A jewelry store in Tokyo Japan is offering lifesize Darth Vader masks made of 24karat gold at a hefty price of 14 million to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of the first “Star Wars” movie The creation measures roughly 10 inches wide by 1... |
“The bestlaid plans of mice and men often go awry” Robert Burns a Scottish poet wrote those words more than 200 years ago He meant that even if you try your best to make a plan things may still not turn out as you expected I have been thinking of that famous Burns quote this past week Here’s why Adam Eaton The Washingt... |
Workers in Nepal have put the finishing touches on a 48foottall wooden chariot the centerpiece of a centuriesold festival that is meant to bring a generous rainfall and successful harvest for the mountainous nation in South Asia “We have to build it strong so that it does not collapse If anything happens to the chariot... |
You might think that the United States is a pretty safe place to be a journalist In nations such as China and Syria independent journalists are often jailed and sometimes killed for doing their jobs In the United States such danger is not typical But a recent report shows that the country is not a shining example of pr... |
Ten eastern black rhinos have been relocated from South Africa to Rwanda’s Akagera National Park 10 years after the poachingthreatened animal was last seen in the park authorities said Tuesday The relocation is the result of Rwanda’s collaboration with African Parks which manages protected areas for governments across ... |
Schools won’t have to cut more salt from meals just yet and some will be able to serve kids fewer whole grains under changes to federal nutrition standards announced Monday The move by the Trump administration partially rolls back rules championed by former first lady Michelle Obama as part of her healthful eating init... |
Each year 1500 babies are born in the United States without part or all of their arm according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Many more children lose fingers or hands in accidents Often they overcome their limitations thanks to medical replacements But kids quickly outgrow these devices which cost th... |
Simone Biles has been busy There was the tour with Kellogg’s in the fall a victory lap through 36 cities where she performed with her gymnastics teammates from the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro Brazil Then she published a bestselling memoir “Courage to Soar” went on her first date attended the Golden Globe Awards and ... |
The London Marathon started five days ago and Tom Harrison is nearly done It’s not that he’s a slow runner It’s that he’s a slow crawler particularly wearing his gorilla suit The man dubbed Mr Gorilla is raising money for the Gorilla Organization — so far more than 29000 has been pledged — by traveling 262 miles on han... |
A startling new report asserts that the first known Americans arrived much much earlier than scientists thought — more than 100000 years ago — and maybe they were Neanderthals If true the finding would drastically change the widely accepted date of about 15000 years ago Researchers say a site in Southern California sho... |
The first round of the National Football League draft will take place Thursday night in Philadelphia Pennsylvania In the draft the NFL’s 32 teams pick from among the best college players to play on their teams next season Six more rounds of picks will follow on Friday and Saturday The NFL draft is a big event Thousands... |
A stadiumsize balloon began collecting data in the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere Wednesday a crucial step in a NASA mission to study mysterious particles from deep space The balloon was launched Tuesday from Wanaka New Zealand after seven planned launches were canceled because of bad weather The unmanned balloon ... |
Jeff Kinney remembers when his goal was to write a book one big book for grownups “I thought I’d write about a year in the life of a typical kid” says the children’s author known to millions for his “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series “I’d write one book that was between 700 and 1000 pages long and I’d look at every aspect o... |
The poems he studied at school most of them written hundreds of years ago by British men who used words such as “thine” and “thou” didn’t seem interesting or related to his own life He was climbing trees and running around the suburbs of Chicago Illinois on nice summer days The old poets he was reading were just spouti... |
When it comes to music and visual arts American students could use help The National Center for Education Statistics reported Tuesday that in 2016 US eighthgraders scored an average of 147 in music and 149 in visual arts on a scale of 300 Some 8800 eighthgraders from public and private schools across the country took p... |
Toy shops are thriving in eastern Mosul with Iraqi children once again able to buy dolls teddy bears or action figures after Islamic State was driven out of the area The militant group banned toys with faces or eyes during the three years they controlled Iraq’s second largest city including some animal toys But when US... |
Creating a recipe “from scratch” can be hard to do — or a piece of cake as a team of six students at Washington Irving Middle School in Springfield Virginia found out recently They had to come up with an original afterschool or breakfast “smart snack” that was healthful yet tasty enough that their friends would want to... |
Astronaut Peggy Whitson broke the US record Monday for most time in space and talked up Mars during a congratulatory call from President Trump The International Space Station’s commander surpassed the record of 534 days two hours and 48 minutes for most accumulated time in space by an American “This is a very special d... |
A white oak tree that has watched over a New Jersey community and a church for hundreds of years began its final bow Monday as crews began its removal and residents fondly remembered the goto spot for formal photos and the remarkable piece of natural history Crews at the Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church in Bernards be... |
The world saw brain power take a different form Saturday In Washington and hundreds of other cities scientists students and research advocates rallied on an often soggy Earth Day sending a global message about scientific freedom without political interference the need for government spending for future breakthroughs an... |
The last orca has been born in captivity at a SeaWorld park in San Antonio Texas just over a year after the theme park decided to stop breeding orcas following protests for animal rights and declining ticket sales The orca — the last in a generation of whales bred in confinement — was born Wednesday afternoon to 25year... |
British officials say they’ve been unable to trace the rightful heirs to a trove of gold coins found stashed inside a piano and worth a “lifechanging” amount of money The school that owns the piano and the tuner who found the gold are now in line for a windfall after an official investigating the find declared it treas... |
That’s what the Washington Capitals and the Washington Wizards are hoping for this playoff season Teams in the National Hockey League NHL and National Basketball Association NBA have to win four sevengame playoff series to win a championship There’s the first round then the conference semifinals and the conference fina... |
American high school students are generally satisfied with their lives But many of their peers in other countries are happier Asked to rank their life satisfaction on a scale from 0 to 10 American 15yearolds gave an average mark of 74 according to a study released Wednesday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation ... |
With only two wolves left to feast on them the moose of Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park are undergoing a population explosion that could endanger the wilderness area’s fir trees and eventually cause many of the moose to starve scientists said Tuesday The unchecked growth of hulking moose at the Lake Superior islan... |
If you are curious love exploring and want to help protect our national parks’ cultural and natural resources you would make a great Junior Ranger Designed for kids from 5 to 13 free Junior Ranger programs help young visitors gain a deep understanding of each park and discover the wonders within it Activity booklets an... |
The longawaited offspring of Internet sensation April the Giraffe is being described as “spunky and independent” The owner of Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville New York says the notyetnamed baby boy was on its feet within an hour after its birth Saturday — and galloping around its mother within three hours Jordan P... |
In Amy Sarig King’s new novel “Me and Marvin Gardens” a boy named Obe discovers a new type of animal It has the jaw of a pig the snout of a tapir a large hoglike mammal and the friendly personality of a dog Strangest of all It eats plastic Obe is going through a tough time and the creature becomes a good friend He name... |
Thousands of kids and some adults joined President Donald Trump on Monday for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll Trump’s wife Melania and their son Barron 11 and the Easter Bunny were also there About 21000 people were expected at the eggrolling event which dates to 1878 That is down from about 35000 in 2016 Among ... |
A tiny icy ocean world orbiting Saturn is now a hotterthanever candidate for potential alien life Cassini an unmanned NASA spacecraft has detected hydrogen molecules in geysers shooting off the moon Enceladus The hydrogen may be the result of deepsea chemical reactions between water and rock which could spark microscop... |
Have you ever heard your mom or dad say that someone’s hormones were raging The comment is usually uttered when a teenager is grumpy for no apparent reason Although it’s true that certain hormones increase during adolescence your endocrine system has been making them your entire life The brain uses nerve impulses to co... |
Scientists have identified the oldest known relative of the dinosaurs and are expressing surprise at how little it resembled one Researchers on Wednesday described fossils of a longnecked fourlegged meateating reptile called It reached up to 10 feet long and prowled across what is now Tanzania in East Africa about 245... |
They are supposed to make the games fun and fair for the players and fans Take the recent example of Lexi Thompson a golfer on the women’s professional tour known as the LPGA Thompson was leading by several strokes during the fourth and final round of the ANA Inspiration one of the tour’s major tournaments It looked as... |
Two months after the world’s youngest nation declared a famine hunger has become more widespread than expected aid workers say A northern region in South Sudan which became independent from Sudan in 2011 and has been tangled in civil war for more than three years is on the brink of starvation Without sustained food ass... |
For 48 days each spring Sophia Fakhoury keeps all meats and cheeses off her plate and — with mixed success — out of her mind She doesn’t touch a bit of bacon or lamb two of her favorite foods and she says the only dairy product she consumes is milk “because it gives me vitamin D that I need while I’m growing” The fast ... |
Last month we wrote about James Madison the Founding Father who included the guarantee of a free press when he wrote the Bill of Rights We announced an essay contest to find out your thoughts on a free press The deadline for entries is Thursday which is also the birthday of Madison’s friend and fellow freepress support... |
Katie Damon’s secondgrade class at Terraset Elementary School in Reston Virginia is the April Class of KidsPost These 24 students look up to family members enjoy Mo Willems’s books and would like to care for animals when they grow up We will publish a Class of KidsPost each month of the school year If you would like ... |
Malala Yousafzai the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is to become the youngest United Nations Messenger of Peace the organization’s chief said Friday Yousafzai 19 will be appointed on Monday by UN SecretaryGeneral António Guterres and will help promote girls’ education around the world as part of her new role... |
Over the past year Ada and Anuma have broken Marta Llanes’s television and computer keyboard chewed her telephone to pieces and ruined much of her furniture She has forgiven them each time It’s hard to stay angry at a baby chimpanzee when it clambers up your leg and into your arms and plants a kiss on your cheek in a p... |
Question marks They are those squiggly notes at the end of sentences that ask things such as “How old are you” In sports question marks are the parts of a team you are not quite sure of as the season begins The more question marks a team has the more trouble that team may experience during the season The Washington Nat... |
An incoming Kansas high school principal resigned Tuesday after student reporters raised questions about her credentials Amy Robertson an education consultant in the United Arab Emirates was hired in March to become the principal of Pittsburg High School in southeastern Kansas Six student journalists at the school’s pa... |
Scripps National Spelling Bee winners aced “Gesellschaft” and “Feldenkrais” to be named cochampions of last year’s competition but it was the word “tie” that gave organizers a headache On Tuesday the contest revealed new rules aimed at preventing ties after the annual competition ended in a dead heat three years in a r... |
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is now halfway between Pluto and its next much much smaller stop New Horizons — which reached the milestone this week — is bound for an even more remote object called 2014 MU69 Like Pluto the object orbits in our solar system’s twilight zone known as the Kuiper belt but it is barely 1 per... |
They thought it would be over within months They were wrong Instead the world was at war for four long years Powerful nations took sides — the Allies versus the Central Powers From 1914 to 1918 they battled across Europe and into Asia and Africa The United States supplied the Allies with goods but tried to stay out of ... |
Wildlife enthusiasts around the world can follow the daily journey of Yosemite National Park’s black bears from their laptops and smartphones tracking the animals as they lope up steep canyons and cross vast distances in search of food and mates Park rangers on Monday unveiled Keepbearswildorg showing where select bear... |
Last spring JJ Edwards had seven furry roommates Fairley Farley Felicity Finley Fleur Fritz and Friday Sharing a room with that many animals may sound chaotic but it’s no big deal for the 10yearold JJ and his family have taken in more than 50 homeless kittens over the past six years And they expect more in the next few... |
An Egyptian excavation team has discovered the remains of a pyramid that dates to the 13th dynasty some 3700 years ago according to one of that country’s top officials in antiquities or ancient objects The head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Sector Mahmoud Afifi said in a statement Monday that the remains were loc... |
Fed up with the theft of toilet paper from public bathrooms tourist authorities in China’s capital have begun using facial recognition technology to limit how much paper a person can take The unusual move — part of a “toilet revolution” — is another step in China’s vast upgrading of public facilities Bathrooms at touri... |
A few times each fall before the ground freezes and the air gets too cold Jim Bintliff takes a shovel and buckets down to the banks of a muddy river in southern New Jersey He’s there to harvest mud — odorless and puddinglike with a chocolate color to match — that has become as much a part of Major League Baseball as Cr... |
Dandelion yellow has reason to be blue Crayola announced Friday National Crayon Day that it’s replacing the color dandelion in its 24pack with a crayon in “the blue family” The company says it will leave it to fans to come up with a name for the replacement color It’s only the third time in Crayola’s long history that ... |
In the summer of 1914 tension was building across Europe In the east the Ottoman and AustroHungarian empires were threatened by ethnic groups seeking to break away or expand their reach To the west Germany was flexing its industrial muscle while the powerful British navy was the envy of the world A wave of nationalism ... |
Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States That’s the most boring thing you’ll read about him in this story Consider this For most of the people who have been president of the United States and there have been only 43 and they’ve all been men that title would be the highlight of a lifetime the accomp... |
The first time I hiked to the bottom of Grand Canyon National Park I knew I wanted to work there Now as a park ranger for the National Park Service I share the science history and beauty of this natural wonder with thousands of visitors from around the world They preserve some of America’s most beautiful and historic p... |
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