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What’s Out There?

March 18, 2025

Astrophysicist and educator Jackie Faherty was drawn to her career by questions most people have had: Why are we here? What is this Earth? “You open up your mind to everything that’s out there in the universe,” Faherty tells TIME…

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Getting the Shot

March 18, 2025

TFK Kid Reporter Meyer Ballas speaks with Carrie Giordano, a California-based sports photographer. Carrie Giordano works fast. She’s a photographer for two professional sports teams in California: baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers and football’s Los Angeles Rams. This means she’s…

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Growing Strong

March 18, 2025

Andrea Carter was about 10 years old when she realized she wanted to spend her life cultivating food. While there weren't many farms near Bethesda, Maryland, where she grew up, her family traveled each summer to rural Vermont, where Carter…

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Dawn to Dusk

March 13, 2025

TFK Kid Reporter Vivian Goldhirsh read Almost Sunset and interviewed its author, Wahab Algarmi. Read Vivian’s thoughts below. Almost Sunset is a new graphic novel about a young boy named Hassan who is observing Ramadan. Every year, nearly 2 billion…

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Pride on the Farm

March 13, 2025

Iowa is the largest producer of corn in the United States. Moreover, the state has more than 86,000 farms and about 30 million acres of farmland. It’s second only to California in total agricultural production. That’s no small feat. In…

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No Action Too Small

March 12, 2025

When Geetha moves to the United States with her mom, she leaves her family behind in India, along with everything she has ever known. The change isn’t easy. At school, people make fun of her and her accent. To cope,…

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Environment

Water at Work

March 11, 2025

Water is one of our most important resources. Many people don’t think about where water comes from, how it gets to us, or where it goes after we use it. But water resource engineers do. It’s their job. They make…

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A Thrilling Ride

March 10, 2025

TFK Kid Reporter Meyer Ballas read Will’s Race for Home and interviewed its author, Jewell Parker Rhodes. Read Meyer’s thoughts below. In Will’s Race for Home, Jewell Parker Rhodes tells a captivating, action-packed story about the Oklahoma Land Rush. The…

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United States

Addressing Congress

March 6, 2025

On March 4, in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump gave a speech to Congress. Members of both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives gathered for the event. It was the president’s first joint address since his second…

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Time to Spring Ahead

March 6, 2025

On March 9, most people in the U.S. saw their clocks jump an hour into the future. This was the start of daylight saving time (DST). DST involves setting clocks forward by one hour in the spring. Clocks are turned…

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World

Early Bloom

March 6, 2025

People stroll under flowering cherry trees in Kawazu, Japan, on March 2. These cherry trees are unusual: They often flower in February, two months before cherry…

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Technology

Moon Milestone

March 6, 2025

Firefly Aerospace has become the first private business to conduct a successful moon landing. On March 2, its uncrewed Blue Ghost lander (above) touched down on lunar soil. The lander launched from Florida in January. It carried tools, including…

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Oyster Duty

March 6, 2025

To seafood lovers, oysters can be a delicious treat. Others value oysters as a source of precious pearls. But to Demi Johnson, of Gulfport, Mississippi, oysters are environmental superstars. “They’re really important,” the 15-year-old told TIME for Kids. A single…

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Talking Toons

March 5, 2025

Do you like to make up silly voices? That’s exactly what a voice actor does. Voice actors perform in animated movies and on TV shows, audiobooks, radio shows, podcasts, and more. As a voice actor, Eric Bauza has made a…

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A New Look at Life

March 5, 2025

Far from Earth, an asteroid called Bennu orbits the sun. In 2023, a NASA spacecraft brought samples of Bennu back to Earth. Two papers, both published in January, reveal that the samples contained the building blocks of life, including compounds…

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Agriculture in Action

February 27, 2025

In March 2024, TFK Kid Reporter Ben Stern attended Ignite by 4-H, an annual career readiness conference for teens. Ben interviewed Katie Collins, a 2024 winner of the National 4-H Youth in Action Award. Collins started a program called See…