Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Here are our favorite tech books for kids: Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Here are our favorite tech books for kids Lauren Pritchett Tue, 10/11/2022 – 11:00 Tech is everywhere! And it’s important to remember, everyone is a beginner once. The industry is continually growing, looking for new folks to add valuable …
‘Too afraid to have kids’ – how BirthStrike for Climate lost control of its political message: Blythe Pepino, founder of BirthStrike, on the Tucker Carlson show. YouTube In March 2019, Blythe Pepino, singer-songwriter and founder of the environmental activist group BirthStrike for Climate, appeared on the right-wing Tucker Carlson Tonight show on Fox News in …
Curious Kids: what is exotic matter, and could we use it to make wormholes?: Rost9/Shutterstock What is exotic matter, and could we use it to make wormholes? – Julia, aged 14, London Matter is “stuff”. It is anything that is made up of particles that take up space. Everything we can feel and see on …
‘Are we nearly there yet?’: why long car journeys are so excruciating for your kids: It's never long before the maddening refrain from the back seats. Travel_Master/Shutterstock As we approach the end of the school holidays, parents across the country are saying the same thing: “If I had a pound for every time I heard …
Men’s fertility also declines with age — here’s what to know if you’re planning to wait to have kids: Fertility tends to decline from 40 onwards. Home creator/ Shutterstock While women are often reminded about their “biological clock,” many guys just don’t feel the same pressures when it comes to settling down and starting a …
Tips for parents on keeping kids safe online: GettyImages Young children and adolescents are becoming hyper connected. They are using digital technologies as a platform for learning, connection and socialisation on a global scale. The COVID pandemic meant that kids were moving online for many of their daily activities and spending more time online. In …
Curious Kids: is it possible to see what is happening in distant solar systems now?: Tithi Luadthong/Shutterstock If a distant solar system is millions of light years away and so we see it as it was millions of years ago, how can we see what it looks like now? Parul, aged 13, Sri Ganganagar, India …
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Curious Kids: what is cosmic microwave background radiation?: Yaroslav Vitkovskiy/Shutterstock What is cosmic microwave background radiation? Did it happen after the Big Bang? – Sreehari, aged nine, Kerala State, India The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB for short), is light: the oldest and most distant light that we can see in the entire universe. It comes …
Check out this Camps Bay Beach image: RAINBOW KIDS SEND A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD Image by 350.org In a unique first for Cape Town, South Africa, Save our Seas Shark Centre and Consider Us, a UNEP Initiative joined hands with 600 Rainbow Kids to send a resounding message to the world on Camps Bay …
Curious Kids: how did people talk in the Stone Age?: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock How did people talk in the Stone Age? – Tsubamé, aged eight, London, UK The Stone Age refers to a time in the distant past. It started around 3 million years ago and lasted until about 40,000 years ago. It is named the Stone …
Check out this Camps Bay Beach image: RAINBOW KIDS SEND A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD Image by 350.org In a unique first for Cape Town, South Africa, Save our Seas Shark Centre and Consider Us, a UNEP Initiative joined hands with 600 Rainbow Kids to send a resounding message to the world on Camps Bay …
Curious Kids: what are NFTs – and why are they so expensive?: shutterstock What is the purpose of making NFTs and what makes some of them so costly? – Tanvi, aged 16, Delhi, India An NFT is a technology that proves who the owner of a digital object is. This digital object could be a song, …
Curious Kids: how likely is it that there are parallel universes and other Earths?: MingzhePhoton/Shutterstock How likely is it that there are other Earths or that the multiverse exists? – Tasneem, aged 16, Indore, India In fiction and in films such as Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse, parallel universes – also called the multiverse – exist …
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Curious Kids: why is February shorter than every other month?: A fragment of mosaic showing February from the Sousse mosaic calendar. © Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons Why does February has the least number of days? Why does it not have 30 or 31 days like the rest of the eleven months? – Simi, aged …
Curious Kids: how do scientists read a person’s DNA?: Africa Studio/Shutterstock How do scientists read a person’s DNA? – James, aged 11, Thame, UK DNA (which stands for deoxyribonucleic acid) contains all the information needed to make your body work. It is also surprisingly simple. DNA is made from four chemical building blocks, which are …
Curious Kids: could we change other planets in the Solar System so we could live on them?: Lia Koltyrina/Shutterstock Can we terraform other planets so that the human race can spread around the Solar System? – Xander, aged 14, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Of the eight planets in the Solar System, we live on Earth, and …