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Kuka is a robotic arm that used to work in the automotive industry. Now it’s a DJ! Kuka spins records at a nightclub in Prague in the Czech Republic. It uses software to pick music, scratch and even dance. The robot arm switches shifts with its human programmer. Kuka’s a big hit!
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Sometimes extreme cold gives you a runny nose. Cold-induced rhinitis can cause your nose to drip a cup of fluid a day! When you inhale, your nose has to make the air warm and wet to avoid irritating your lung cells. Secretions create humidity, but sometimes your nose just makes more than necessary.
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A fossilized skull of a Siberian Unicorn was found in Kazakhstan! Earlier fossils were 350,000 years old, but this unicorn lived only 29,000 years ago. The Siberian unicorn, or Elasmotherium sibiricum looked like a 6 foot tall rhino with shaggy fur like a woolly mammoth and a long, slender horn coming out of its head.
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Christmas tradition says a star overhead marked the location where Jesus was born. The Bible describes how wise men followed a star to Bethlehem. Some people think the star was really a UFO! They also think Jesus was an alien who could shift shapes. Whatever you believe, Merry Christmas!
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A fun holiday activity is making a gingerbread house. The cookie walls and decorations made from icing and candy look too beautiful to eat. But you’d have a hard time eating the biggest gingerbread house. It was built in Texas in 2013 and was 60 feet long. You’d have to live in it instead!
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Have you heard of Fingerlings? Maybe you got one of these toys for a holiday gift. They are actually miniature robot monkeys. They can sense and react to sound, motion, and position. They are quite inexpensive for a sophisticated robot, not to mention cute. No wonder they are so popular!
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A popular Christmas gift for kids years ago used to be a chemistry set. But those sets could be dangerous! They contained poisonous cyanide to dissolve gold, blowtorches to make glass test tubes, radioactive uranium to practice measuring radiation, and carcinogenic asbestos to dust for fingerprints. Now some chemistry sets don’t even contain chemicals!
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Today is Christmas, a festival celebrated by billions of people to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. We don’t know the date Jesus was actually born, but Christmas has been December 25th since the year 336. It is marked with gift giving and Santa Claus, Christmas trees and lights, church services, songs and gatherings.
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A Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo baby is finally showing his face at the Belfast Zoo! When the joey was born in June, he was the size of a jelly bean and crawled into his mother’s pouch. Kayjo has been developing in the pouch and waited more than 6 months to peek out!
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Scientists have been studying a mysterious star called RZ Piscium. It has far more dust and debris surrounding it than it should for its age. Researchers now think the star is eating leftover planets! Dust and gas from nearby dissolving planets may be getting sucked in by RZ Piscium’s gravitational pull.
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