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Manila is covered in volcanic ash 

If anyone doubted the environmental threats, it’s time to change their minds now. While the bushfires in Australia are still raging, another country is gearing to fight another natural calamity.  A volcano ready to erupt A volcano near the Philippine capital Manila has been spewing lava into the sky and trembling constantly. The earthquakes are […]
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5-year-old makes record in taekwondo 

You would think a 5-year-old would be more interested in jumping in ball pits or sliding from helter skelter. Think again. Because this 5-year-old boy is already making world records. Aashman Taneja from Hyderabad has made a Guinness world record in Taekwondo for the most full contact knee strikes in one-hour non-stop.  Aashman is an […]
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A Toy story wedding! 

We all love our animated heroes… we wear them on our tees, drink chocolate milk shake from mugs with photos of them, even have keychains and badges of our heroes. But only a true fan can do what this lady did. Lindsay Ashton is a die-hard fan of Toy Story movies… so what even we […]
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Listings: Have a fun-filled week ahead

What: Children’s Film Festival | In collaboration with Canada When: Sunday, 19th January 2020 | 4PM-5PM Where: Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Veermata Jijabai Bhonsle Udyan, (Rani Baug) 91/A, Dr. Ambedkar Road, Byculla E, Mumbai By: Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum For: 5+ age group Detailed Info: https://allevents.in/mobile/amp-event.php?event_id=200018783761122 What: Story Quilt […]
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Teen discovers planet just three days after joining NASA 

If you thought that just adding an extra fact to the report could earn you brownie points, you have got some competition. This 17-year-old intern discovered a planet just three days after joining NASA! Now who has a job waiting for them after they finish college? We would say this guy whose name is Wolf […]
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Australian fire: Govt drops 2,000 kg veggies to feed starving animals 

The Australian government is using helicopters and airplanes to help feed starving animals displaced by the country’s wildfire crisis. The New South Wales government used aircraft to drop more than 1,800 kg of food, mostly carrots and sweet potatoes, to colonies of brush-tailed rock-wallabies that were left stranded as massive wildfires ravaged their habitat. The […]
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There are active volcanoes on Venus! 

If there’s lava then there’s an active volcano. New research suggests that the Earth’s sister planet Venus has active volcanoes.  The study shows that lava flows on Venus may be only a few years old, suggesting that Venus could be volcanically active today, making it the only planet in our solar system, other than Earth, […]
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A whale of time from space! 

We all know that climate change is real, and we all have to work towards it. And one of the ways to help save the environment is to save the animals.  An aquarium and an engineering firm in Massachusetts are working on a project to better protect whales. And they would do this by monitoring […]
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Large bloom: World’s largest flower in Indonesia 

We all love flowers… their vibrant colours, their beautiful smell, they cheer us up! But would you like to hold a flower as big as you or your younger sibling?  Yes, scientists have found a flower species in indonesia which is as big as 3.6 foot in diameter. Indonesian conservationists say they’ve spotted the biggest […]
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Talk to your robofriend in your language 

Do you want a robot who can speak in your mother tongue? Worry not. Because Samsung is planning to launch humanoids who can speak in Hindi, Marathi, Bhojpuri, or any language you want.  STAR Labs ‘artificial human’ project, Neon, is unlike any other artificial intelligence work. Neon is just a human companion that not only […]