Curious Kids

Reading aloud can make the text easier to understand when you're a beginning reader.

Is there really an "end" to a rainbow, and can we ever get to it?

Everything that has a beginning has an end. But the Earth will last for a very long time.

Trees can live an incredibly long time, depending on what kind they are.

All told, an estimated 240,000 species of snails and slugs live all over the world. But no matter what continent they're on, or what ocean they're in, there's one thing they all have in common: They move slowly.

Hundreds of children die because of gun violence each year in the United States. Because of these numbers, people are very concerned about firearms that are not stored properly and the injuries they can cause.

In his 1632 book "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems," the astronomer Galileo Galilei first described the principle of relativity - the idea that the universe should behave the same way at all times.

The U.S. government wanted a network that would allow computers to communicate automatically and even if some telephone lines were cut off.

Our planet holds a lot of trash. Since the Industrial Revolution, we humans have produced 30 trillion tons of stuff.