Good morning and welcome to Kid News! I'm Tori. Today is Thursday, February 25th, 2021.

And we begin with the post office rolling out its new design for its futuristic fleet of mail trucks.

Public reaction to the revolutionary remodel has been swift and strong with some calling it a dorkmobile and likening it to an ugly duckling.

One Twitter user even suggested the vehicle with its unusually tall and wide front windshield look like a golf cart and a platypus had a baby.

Opinions aside, few would argue that the revamp is overdue. Most of the agency's 200,000 trucks have been on the road for 30 years, with hundreds reportedly spontaneously catching on fire in recent years.

Among the improvements in the mostly electric fleet, backup cameras, airbags, and much needed air conditioning for those hot summer days.

The first of the all-new Made in America trucks will hit the road in 2023.

First, a spectacular Mars landing and now news that Perseverance was transporting a secret message.

When NASA engineers were designing the parachute that would carry the rover to its soft landing, they needed it to have a distinct pattern so they could monitor its orientation upon descent.

One of those engineers was Ian Clark, who happens to be a puzzle fan. He used a coding system called Binary Code to arrange the orange and white striped nylon fabric to spell out dare mighty things, a phrase made famous by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Also hiding in plain sight, the GPS coordinates for the mission's headquarters at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California.

For two years, Clark had been one of only six people in on the secret, but once those color images made their way back to Earth, it took space fans only hours to crack the code.

More help is on the way in the push to rid the world of COVID-19.

Yesterday, US regulators reported that Johnson & Johnson's vaccine is safe and offers strong protection against the virus.

While trials have shown that its single-dose shot may not be as effective as the one-two punch of Pfizer and Moderna, FDA scientists believe the addition of a third weapon in the fight will have a huge impact in slowing the spread.

One big plus, convenience. Unlike the sub-zero temps necessary to store the vaccines currently in use, J&J's will last three months in a regular refrigerator.

Tomorrow, a panel of independent advisors will study all the evidence before making their formal recommendation.

It's being called the best pizza in New York, but all the money in the world won't get you a slice.

30-year-old Italian-born Gabriel Lamanica had moved to the states with a dream to study chemistry.

During the pandemic, he put that knowledge to use, producing gourmet pies with slow-rising crusts and found that demand far outweighed his supply.

At first, he didn't want to charge friends for the three to four weekly pizzas he produces in his Harlem kitchen, so he accepted only barters or trades as payment.

Now, he's extended that opportunity to strangers who find him through social media. He's up to about five to ten requests per day and has accepted offers ranging from chocolate cake to homemade kombucha tea.

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