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Houston, Texas, is the fourth-largest city in the United States. This summer, it was hit by a hurricane. Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25. It began as a Category 4 storm. Wind speeds reached 130 miles per hour.…
Pizza and French fries taste good. The trouble is, U.S. kids are eating way too many salty foods like these. The salt we add to food is about 40% sodium. Our bodies need some sodium. But too much is not…
Mike Cranfield is a veterinarian, or vet. His patients are gorillas. One ape, Ijabo, stands out. When Ijabo was three days old, an exam showed he had a badly damaged leg. Cranfield had to remove the leg below the knee.…
Imagine flying through space in a rocket. When you land, you hop right onto the moon. With virtual reality (VR), students don’t need to imagine it. They can experience it. They don’t even have to leave their classroom. Many…
On a trip to the Philadelphia Zoo, in Pennsylvania, kids got a surprise. Directly in front of them was a tiger. But the kids were not scared. They laughed. That is because the tiger was in a special enclosed trail.…
Find out how recycling old soap is changing lives in Cambodia. Samir Lakhani was in college when he first visited Cambodia. One trip to this small country in Asia changed Lakhani’s life. He learned that Cambodia is very poor. Most…
U.S. students are learning the language in school. It is spoken in China. There are thousands of languages in the world. More people speak Mandarin than any other language. It is a form of Chinese. In the United States, many…
She helps kids learn about the world. Author and illustrator Gail Gibbons loves to learn. “As a kid, I was curious about everything,” she told TFK. “I had so many questions.” Her curiosity and her interest in art led Gibbons…
Meet a NASA engineer who designs spacesuits for future missions. How do you keep dust out of a spacesuit? That is a problem Lindsay Aitchison wants to solve. She is an engineer at NASA. NASA plans to send astronauts to…
Poet Kenn Nesbitt picks his favorites in the TFK poetry contest. April is Poetry Month. Every year, TFK asks kids to write poems for our poetry contest. Entries pour in from across the country. Poet Kenn Nesbitt is our judge.…
To save its birds, New Zealand has a big plan to get rid of rats. New Zealand has a pest problem. The country has a plan to solve it. The country’s leaders want to get rid of rats and other…
