02:34 July 26, 2024
Visitors to Paris for the Olympics can now send a smell of France home with their picture postcards and letters. The smell comes from a special stamp…
07:43 July 25, 2024
Indonesia aims to be the world’s top nickel supplier. But its efforts to produce nickel have seriously harmed the country’s forests, nonprofit groups…
05:20 July 25, 2024
Cuba’s capital, Havana, is famous for its colorful vintage cars. They fill the streets and are often popular subjects for visitors' photographs. But …
04:19 July 24, 2024
Paris is a popular place for visitors because of its food, art, and history. The city itself is likely to be central to the experience of the Olympic…
04:52 July 24, 2024
The European climate change service Copernicus said Monday broke the world’s hottest day record that was just set a day earlier. The European Union’s…
06:52 July 24, 2024
A major computer system outage affected a wide range of businesses around the world beginning late last week. But the cause of the outage was quickly…
06:47 July 23, 2024
More American states are pushing for cell phone restrictions in high schools. The move comes as teachers say it is a major problem in the classroom. …
05:02 July 23, 2024
An advocacy group for Indigenous peoples has released images of a reclusive Peruvian Amazon tribe’s members searching for food outside of their usual…
05:17 July 23, 2024
Scientists in Brazil say heavy rains helped them discover a fossil they believe came from one of the world’s oldest dinosaurs. Researchers found the …
06:24 July 22, 2024
Many new Ukrainian businesses are reportedly developing unmanned military vehicles for the country’s war against Russia. The operations often happen …
07:43 July 22, 2024
People who grow their own food are familiar with planting tomatoes, peppers, squash, herbs, berries and other common fruits and vegetables. However, …
04:39 July 22, 2024
Democratic Party lawmakers, some governors, and financial donors are supporting U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s presidential nomi…
06:09 July 21, 2024
Turkey has become a leading exporter of television shows in recent years. Millions of people are watching Turkish TV dramas known as Dizi. Many of th…
03:29 July 21, 2024
Japanese scientists have found a way to attach living skin tissue to robotic faces and make them "smile." This breakthrough could be helpful not only…
06:42 July 21, 2024
Scientists say they have found evidence that the smelly molecule hydrogen sulfide exists in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like planet. Hydrogen sulfide…
05:29 July 20, 2024
The United Nations is predicting the world’s population will reach 10.3 billion in the 2080s. The prediction appears in a new U.N. report. The report…
05:38 July 19, 2024
The sound of church bells around the world is usually made by machine. But before newspapers, radio, telephones, television and the internet, bell ri…
08:31 July 18, 2024
Cold nights, on Chippewa Flowage, a lake in the state of Wisconsin, do not stop 15-year-old Gabe Bisonette. He has been learning spearfishing, a trad…
04:21 July 18, 2024
Health workers in Ivory Coast have launched the country’s first child vaccination program against malaria. The effort aims to reduce cases of the mos…
03:41 July 17, 2024
Scientists have confirmed a cave on the moon, not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago. They suspect there are hundreds …
03:14 July 17, 2024
No one has ever seen a live spade-toothed whale. It is the world's rarest kind of whale. No one knows how many exist, what they eat, or even where th…
06:34 July 17, 2024
For most of us, using – and trying to remember – a collection of passwords is just a normal part of our digital lives. But it seems like the number o…
07:35 July 16, 2024
A new study says that Americans have increasing questions about the value and cost of a college education. Most of the people taking part in the stud…
04:03 July 16, 2024
South Korean beauty products company AmorePacific has a new artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory that has become popular with customers. At the la…
06:44 July 16, 2024
Different versions of bird flu have been spreading around the world in recent years. The virus, officially known as H5N1, is believed to have killed …
03:33 July 15, 2024
An art gallery in the Australian state of Tasmania presented three paintings as if they were works by the famed painter, Pablo Picasso. At first, the…
08:53 July 15, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Some experts suggest that lifting weights is the best way to keep our bodies strong…
08:28 July 15, 2024
Officials are investigating how a gunman was able to fire several shots at former President Donald Trump during a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylva…
04:48 July 14, 2024
Human doctors perform amputations, or removal of an arm, leg, or finger, after a serious injury. The purpose of this action is to prevent infection o…
06:23 July 14, 2024
Four scientists have left a model Mars environment where they lived in isolation for more than a year. The crew took part in the experiment for the A…
07:03 July 14, 2024
A man in the Northeastern state of Massachusetts has regained his voice after a rare operation. Marty Kedian received a total transplant of his laryn…
06:22 July 13, 2024
Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland will no longer pay for classes thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Ph…
06:01 July 12, 2024
In the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected as the first United States president, a printer quietly published what would bec…
05:48 July 11, 2024
American farmers are using an ancient tree from India to produce beans for making protein-rich foods and biofuels. The tree is called pongamia. It is…
07:05 July 11, 2024
Pieces of bones in a cave in the Tibetan highlands have given researchers new evidence of the mysterious human ancestors known as Denisovans. Interna…
03:27 July 10, 2024
It was a dream wedding in a lovely place, with beautiful clothing and a tasty wedding cake. This perfect wedding day in front of friends and family i…
04:35 July 10, 2024
On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting. The researchers used a laser to date the pai…
06:27 July 10, 2024
The American professional racing organization, NASCAR, recently rolled out its first electric vehicle model to the public. Officials with the motorsp…
05:52 July 9, 2024
The number of Americans studying in China has decreased by large amounts in recent years, from around 11,000 in 2019 to 800 this year. Some people wi…
04:07 July 9, 2024
Mukesh Ambani is known as the richest person in Asia. This week, his son is getting married. But the celebrations and parties began several months ag…
03:12 July 9, 2024
Scientists have identified a kind of desert moss that could help support possible colonies on Mars, a study by the Chinese Academy of Sciences showed…
07:33 July 9, 2024
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is seeking closer ties with non-member partners from Asia at its 2024 leaders meeting. It opened Tuesday in th…
06:44 July 8, 2024
Scientists studying the spread of bird flu in the United States say they worry about a lack of data in tracking the virus, called Type A H5N1. In rec…
05:19 July 8, 2024
Experienced gardeners have likely learned to look out for poison ivy, a common plant found across North America, Europe and East Asia. While this gre…
06:18 July 8, 2024
American company Boeing will admit to criminal charges of wrongdoing linked to two deadly passenger jet crashes. The aerospace manufacturer will also…
03:22 July 7, 2024
Recent United Nations data shows that China is ahead of other countries in filing patents for generative artificial intelligence (or GenAI) invention…
07:03 July 7, 2024
About half of Nigeria’s 200 million people cannot get enough electricity from the country’s electrical grid. Many poor, rural communities have no ele…
06:54 July 7, 2024
The U.S. space agency NASA has chosen SpaceX to produce a vehicle to take the International Space Station (ISS) out of orbit at the end of its servic…
05:43 July 5, 2024
German automaker Volkswagen (VW) ended production of its Beetle model in 2019. But some communities around the world are still demonstrating a lastin…
05:29 July 4, 2024
A recent report by environmental researchers says that protecting 1.2 percent of the Earth’s land surface could prevent most extinctions. Extinction …