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A new law passed in Australia on November 29. It will bar kids under 16 from using social media. They will still be able to use some social sites for educational reasons. But they’ll be banned from platforms such as…
Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants. That’s because of their icy cores. But each of these planets may be hiding a deep ocean. Burkhard Militzer is an astronomer. He has published new research on these planets. It ran in…
Vito the Pug is named winner of the 2024 National Dog Show, in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on Thanksgiving Day. He’s the first pug to claim Best in Show in the more than 20 years since the contest began airing on TV.…
If you mindlessly use an electronic device for too long, you might start to experience “brain rot.” The term is the 2024 Word of the Year. Oxford University Press revealed its choice on December 2. A person is said to…
Mountain lions in Los Angeles, California, are becoming more nocturnal. The shift helps them keep away from people. This is according to a study published in Biological Conservation last month. Seth Riley is a wildlife ecologist. These mountain lions exist…
Lena Ford was 7 when she started Arting for You. She collected art supplies. Then she donated them to kids in foster care and homeless shelters in and around her hometown of Marietta, Georgia. “My granny always wanted to give…
Standing in one of Hawaii’s caves, you might think it’s empty. It’s dark. It’s quiet. Not many plants or animals call this place home. But there’s a lot of life. Most of it you just might not notice. There might…
On November 18, the more than 33 million residents of New Delhi, India, woke up to an ugly surprise. The city was covered in smog. Smog is a kind of air pollution. It creates a toxic fog. In some…
How much would you pay for a banana taped to a wall? That question was on everyone’s mind at Sotheby’s, the New York City auction house, on November 20. The artwork was auctioned to the highest bidder. Final price: $6.2…
On November 12, a staffer at London’s Natural History Museum caps off the T. rex’s winter outfit. Each year, the famed animatronic dinosaur dons a snazzy new sw…
What inspired your community service work? I was vice president of student council in eighth grade. Our goal was to help our community become cleaner. How did the cleanups work? We started with our school. That motivated us once we…
The ocean is full of amazing creatures. It’s also full of plastic. There are about 171 trillion pieces of plastic in the sea. That’s according to a study published in the journal PLOS One in 2023. This is bad news…
TFK Kid Reporter Meyer Ballas read The Last Kids on Earth: The Graphic Novel and interviewed Max Brallier, its author. Read Meyer’s thoughts below. The Last Kids on Earth: The Graphic Novel is an illustrated version of the first book…
Wicked, now in movie theaters, imagines what happened before Dorothy fell into the Land of Oz. It’s based on the hit Broadway musical. The movie stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande as witches Elphaba and Glinda. Marissa Bode plays Nessarose,…
The new movie Out of My Mind is based on a novel of the same name. It’s about Melody Brooks, a sixth grader with cerebral palsy. This affects her speech and movement, so she isn’t given the same opportunities as…
TFK Kid Reporter Safiyyah Hussain read Off the Map and interviewed Meika Hashimoto, its author. Read Safiyyah’s thoughts below. In her latest novel, Off the Map, Meika Hashimoto takes readers on a gripping adventure in Alaska. Marlo sets out on…
TFK Kid Reporter Evelyn Peng read The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night and interviewed the book’s author, Steven Banbury. Read Evelyn’s thoughts below. The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night is Steven Banbury’s debut novel. It’s about a young…
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. He defeated current vice president Kamala Harris. Election results were announced early on November 6, the morning after Election Day. Trump will become the 47th president of the United States. After his…
