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Last weekend, the London Marathon resulted in 34 new world records! There was the fastest marathon on stilts, and the fastest people dressed as a carrot, Star Wars character, cheerleader, man in a wedding dress, and Forrest Gump. Even the weather participated: it was the hottest London Marathon on record, at a balmy 75 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Teenagers Nick Heath and Jack Donnelly were riding their motorbikes near Sydney, Australia when they spotted a kangaroo buried in mud. Nick crawled through the mud quarry to rescue the baby kangaroo, then Jack pulled them back with a rope. They named the roo Lucas, gave him a bath, and took him to a wildlife rescue service to recover.
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The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has a huge goal: mapping all the stars in our galaxy. The map pinpoints the location and brightness of 1.7 billion stars in the Milky Way. It also shows asteroids, interstellar dust, and the color and density of stars. The Gaia spacecraft is still adding to the incredible 3D map!
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Roses are red. Pretzels are brown. An earthquake’s coming! You’d better sit down! Today is National Poem In Your Pocket Day. Have a poem ready to recite for people. It’s National Pretzel Day and National Richter Scale Day also. The Richter Scale measures the magnitude of earthquakes. Pretzels are measured by deliciousness!
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The ESA, or European Space Agency, had been studying a comet named 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Photos were taken by the Rosetta spacecraft in 2016, and Twitter user “landru79” compiled them into a time-lapse video. The amazing result shows cosmic rays, ice and dust, against a cliff thousands of feet tall. Search: “Comet 67 video”, to see it yourself!
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An art teacher in Medford, Wisconsin wanted to raise money for a food pantry with her students. She decided to do it by breaking a world record! Jill Fortin made 261 clay pots on a pottery wheel, in one hour. The art club raised $1000 for the food pantry, and kindergarten classes will decorate the pots and plant flowers.
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An Australian dog named Max is a hero! Max is 17 years old, deaf, and partially blind. But when his owner’s 3 year-old girl wandered off, he followed along with her. Max stayed with Aurora for 15 hours until a search party got close. Then he met the toddler’s grandmother and led her right to Aurora!
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Many scientists say we are living in the Anthropocene epoch, a new geological measurement of time which is longer than an age, but shorter than a period. More evidence that we’ve moved out of the Holocene epoch, is the finding of new minerals on the Earth’s surface. Over 200 minerals exist only because of human activity!
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It’s National Telephone Day! Can you imagine a time without phones? In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received the first patent for a telephone. A patent gives the owner the rights to their invention. Elisha Gray and Antonio Meucci also invented versions of the telephone, but Bell got his patent first! Talk to someone on a phone today!
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Jason Latimer is a magician who wants to inspire kids to pursue science careers. He created the “Impossible Science Student Challenge” to motivate middle and high school students in the US and Canada. Design a science display that looks like magic, and you could win a performance by Jason Latimer for your school!
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