Category: Kids News

Puffins are cute birds with big orange beaks, that live in the North Atlantic. Newly-hatched puffins find their way to the ocean, by following the moonlight. Some pufflings get confused, and fly towards lights in the city instead. People help, by forming puffling patrols. They capture lost birds, and toss them off the cliffs.

Yesterday’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, was a success. After flying 7,000,000 miles, a spacecraft the size of a vending machine was smashed into an asteroid, to slightly change its course. NASA launched the spacecraft nearly a year ago, and everyone was overjoyed that it hit its target.

Attention! Chocolate milk does not come from brown cows! One study of 1000 adults, showed 48% of them didn’t know where chocolate milk came from, and 7% thought it only came from brown cows. For the record, chocolate milk is just milk with chocolate syrup added. Happy Chocolate Milk Day!

Today is Ancestor Appreciation Day. Did any of your ancestors come from other countries? Make a family tree, label your parents and grandparents, and see how far back you can trace. Then go stomp a soda can for Crush A Can Day. It’s fun, plus it makes it more compact to recycle!

Splash Cove is a waterpark in Illinois, with a Lazy River ride. Most visitors float the slow waterway in a tube, but the last visitor this season didn’t need one. It was an alligator, from the Scoville Zoo. The 39-year-old gator, named G, enjoyed swimming and floating, without any pesky swimmers to bother him.

Last month, a submerged volcano in the Tonga Islands, started oozing lava and rocks underwater. While ash and steam rose to the surface, the lava formed a mound that spread 24,000 square meters. It has poked up through the water, forming a new island. It’ll probably sink again, before anyone can walk on it.

Don’t forget to watch NASA.gov today, at 7:14 pm Eastern Daylight Time. You can witness the first Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART. A spacecraft that launched last year, will smash into an asteroid, to slightly change its course. It will demonstrate how we could deflect an object, on a collision course with Earth.

Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. On the Hebrew calendar, it’s the year 5783! The celebration started at sundown on September 25th, and lasts for 2 days. It’s traditional to blow a ram’s horn, or shofar, in the morning, as well as to eat pomegranates, challah bread, and apples dipped in honey.

Today is Johnny Appleseed Day, the birthday of John Chapman in 1774. He traveled around the United States, planting orchards of apple trees. He ate out of his tin hat, which is why he’s often depicted with a pot on his head. It’s also Lumberjack Day, originally created as an excuse to eat pancakes!

Have you ever had cold feet, and worn 2 pairs of socks at once? 14-year-old Carolena Kruse, can give you some tips. She just broke the world record for under-16-year-olds, by putting 22 socks on one foot, in 30 seconds. She has 2 years to work on breaking the adult record, of 28 socks.