ALS Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:17:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg ALS Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Scientist Stephen Hawking Dead At Age 76 https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/03/18/scientist-stephen-hawking-dead-at-age-76/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/03/18/scientist-stephen-hawking-dead-at-age-76/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2018 03:22:53 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=16884 When we think of scientific geniuses, we may think of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie or Ada Lovelace. Stephen Hawking was right up there with the most brilliant minds of any generation. He passed away last week, at the age of 76.
It would take a book -- or a movie (there are both) -- to even scratch the surface of his accomplishments, his tremendous sense of humour, his influence on millions of people and the vast depths of his knowledge.

He helped the world better understand black holes and string theory. Black holes are extremely dense regions in space. We can't see them. In fact, we can understand what they are only by how they affect things around them. Hawking furthered our understanding of them and many other areas of physics. His groundbreaking work changed science forever.

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]]> https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/03/18/scientist-stephen-hawking-dead-at-age-76/feed/ 1 The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/09/03/als-ice-bucket-challenge/ Thu, 04 Sep 2014 02:35:22 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=13483 Lots of people have been dumping buckets of ice cold water over their heads. It may sound a little strange, but it's for a good cause.

It's all part of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and it has taken the Internet by storm.

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