Articles for Grade 3

On May 21st, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), successfully launched the first solar-powered spacecraft. The kite-shaped space yacht that was attached to a meteorological satellite launched to observe weather patterns around Venus, is expected to travel to the other side of the sun and remain in orbit for three years....

If you are a fan of the Olympics then you may want to get acquainted with Mandevllle and Wenlock, the one-eyed mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympics....

California's dog surfing season officially began on Saturday, with the annual Loews Coronado Bay Resort Surfing competition. Now in its fifth year, this fun event, which is also a fundraiser for pet-related charities, attracted 65 contestants, including one who flew all the way from Hawaii....

On June 3rd, six of these men will make their way into a sealed five-capsule, 1,000sq.ft. metal unit, where they will spend the next 520 days. The seventh person, a back-up will get to go only if one of the core six has to back out for any reason....

In the last few years living roofs, have been sprouting up all across the Now architects and farmers are taking the concept one step further, by turning them into urban farms - And what better place to start, then the concrete jungle known as New York!...

Chinese farmer Wu Yulu has a lot of children - somewhere between 32 to 40. However most of his offsprings are not of the human kind, but robots that he lovingly builds from scratch and grows attached to so much, that he even gives them the family name....

A team of Indonesian and International explorers recently revealed some amazing pictures of new mammals, a reptile, an amphibian and a number of insects that they discovered in the remote rainforests of the Foja Mountains on the Island of New Guinea....

For almost a month, we have heard nothing but bad news about the oil spill in the Gulf Coast. Now, finally there is some good news. Yesterday, BP PLC. managed to cap one of the wells and has now begun the process of channeling the gushing oil into a pipe and onto a tanker....

Yesterday, over 70,000 'runners' assembled at San Francisco's picturesque waterfront to participate in the 99th annual Bay To Breakers, often described as the world's wackiest race - An apt description considering the starting line is shared by some of the world's fastest runners and . . . . . adults wearing baby bonnets and sucking on binkies!...