05:08 December 19, 2022
At the end of every World Cup, the president of the international soccer governing body FIFA always says it was the “best World Cup ever.” This time,…
05:43 December 18, 2022
The best cricket bats in the world are made in England and India from willow trees. A bat is the long stick cricket players use to hit the ball. The …
06:43 December 18, 2022
New research shows that the Tonga volcano sent large amounts of particles and water vapor into the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists us…
05:43 December 18, 2022
DNA is the main molecule that carries genetic information in the cells of living things. More than 155,000 Americans who shared their DNA for science…
05:33 December 18, 2022
Bali, Indonesia, is facing a worsening water crisis from tourism development, population growth and water mismanagement. Shortages already are affect…
05:44 December 17, 2022
And now Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Today we go out to the ballpark … the baseball park! We talk about an expression from the…
07:24 December 17, 2022
Growing up in India, Vinay Kanth Rao loved math and knew that he wanted to teach math someday. After earning his master’s degree in mathematics from …
05:24 December 17, 2022
Restaurants, farmers, and food businesses are turning to chemistry and physics to deal with the problem of food waste. Some companies are testing cov…
04:56 December 17, 2022
Mental health experts in Ukraine are using therapy dogs to help children deal with the harmful effects of the country’s war with Russia. The therapy …
11:35 December 16, 2022
We present the last of five parts of the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," by Edgar Allen Poe. The story was originally adapted and recor…
05:38 December 16, 2022
The capital city of Washington, D.C. is home to many famous museums in the United States. But there is one museum in the city that visitors will neve…
05:55 December 16, 2022
Officials in Kenya say severe drought conditions in a northern area have killed hundreds of wild animals in recent months. Many animals that do survi…
04:06 December 16, 2022
A NASA-led international mission launched a radar satellite from southern California early on Friday. The satellite will be involved in a major proje…
05:44 December 16, 2022
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we will answer a question about the differences between “yet” and “already.” Question Dear Learning English, I can…
07:48 December 15, 2022
Last week, we looked at common phrasal verbs and gerunds linked to exercising and health. For this week’s Everyday Grammar report, we will continue t…
04:54 December 15, 2022
Large clothing and technology companies, including Siemens AG and Levi Strauss & Co., are developing robots to make clothes. The process of using rob…
05:12 December 15, 2022
Daniel DePetris is a foreign affairs expert based in the United States. He received an email in October from Jenny Town, the director of 38 North, as…
04:56 December 15, 2022
Visitors are returning to the West Bank city of Bethlehem this Christmas season, after a two-year absence because of COVID-19. At this time last year…
06:45 December 14, 2022
In the 1970s, more than 800 students filled the classrooms of Cheontae Elementary School in rural Hwasun County. The school is set among a group of s…
03:25 December 14, 2022
A new art project in Nigeria is centered on the still missing victims of a 2014 mass kidnapping in the town of Chibok, Borno state. Militants raided …
04:33 December 14, 2022
Ukraine says it shot down 13 drones launched by Russia Wednesday over the capital Kyiv. A city official in Kyiv, Serhii Popko, wrote on the social me…
04:59 December 14, 2022
New Zealand passed a law on Tuesday to set a lifetime ban on buying cigarettes for any person born after January 1, 2009. This means that the minimum…
05:07 December 13, 2022
With a newly shaved head, Jin, the oldest member of the Korean pop group BTS, began his 18 months of required military service on Tuesday. Jin turned…
05:40 December 13, 2022
American scientists have announced a “major scientific breakthrough” in the long-sought search for a way to use nuclear fusion to produce energy. The…
05:19 December 13, 2022
Erwin Ronquillo, an official with the government program Ecuador Grows Without Malnutrition, is worried about hunger in his country. Ronquillo said c…
04:28 December 13, 2022
The United States has charged the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX with several financial crimes. Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested Monday in the …
03:55 December 12, 2022
Zu Wenbao is a 23-year-old Chinese villager with autism. He grew up in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Autism is a developmental disabilit…
06:56 December 12, 2022
Animal and plant species are disappearing at frightening levels. The problem has led to efforts to “rewild” places where such life existed before hum…
07:36 December 12, 2022
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. The key to healthy plants is healthy soil. And the best way to improve soil is by u…
03:51 December 12, 2022
The Maasai people are easily the most identifiable in Kenya with their very colorful clothing. They raise animals and live near some of Kenya’s most …
04:29 December 11, 2022
Little model villages have long been part of many American families’ holiday decorating traditions. The life-like model villages have small houses, s…
05:47 December 11, 2022
The expansive dinosaur group that includes big hunters like the T. rex has a strange new member. Its bones were found in Mongolia. Scientists named t…
04:47 December 11, 2022
A power center that will create electricity by pumping hot water from the earth sounds like a good idea. The company that hopes to build the power ce…
06:37 December 11, 2022
The American space agency NASA says its Orion spacecraft has performed beyond expectations during its test mission to fly around the moon. Orion is s…
04:50 December 10, 2022
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore words and expressions in the English language. We give examp…
13:22 December 10, 2022
Neethi Anand Gangidi came from India to the United States to study chemical engineering. But when the Covid-19 pandemic created difficulties for her …
04:58 December 10, 2022
Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to study what life was like 2 million years ago in Greenland. Today, northern Greenland is an …
04:31 December 10, 2022
Lebanon is a former middle-income country, one that is neither rich nor poor. But its financial system collapsed in 2019. The collapse led to a great…
12:20 December 9, 2022
We present the fourth of five parts of the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," by Edgar Allen Poe. The story was originally adapted and re…
02:53 December 9, 2022
A popular place of interest for tourists in the U.S. state of New Jersey will be changing soon. The change involves the closing of the famous Ripley’…
05:07 December 9, 2022
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we will answer a question about clothes, outfits, suits, and costumes. Question: Dear Teacher, Could you explain f…
06:20 December 9, 2022
Hours after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, health workers at a children’s hospital in southern Ukraine started secretly planning how to save the…
08:11 December 8, 2022
Do you like to “work out?” What do you do to “warm up” for exercise? Do you enjoying walking, dancing, or running? In today’s Everyday Grammar, we wi…
04:00 December 8, 2022
Long before the time of the dinosaurs, an unusual creature called Whatcheeria was a top predator. New research is providing a deeper understanding of…
05:21 December 8, 2022
Manufacturers and businesses wanting to stay open in China are staying careful by keeping COVID-19 measures. The Chinese government is beginning to e…
03:22 December 8, 2022
The American basketball star and Olympic champion Brittney Griner is being released from prison. She had been held in Russia for almost 10 months. Th…
04:10 December 7, 2022
Every year, millions of birds fly between Mexico's Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains and the Gulf of Mexico in an event known as the "river of raptors.…
07:01 December 7, 2022
The city of San Francisco has put a policy on hold that would permit police to deploy armed robots to deal with emergency situations. The city’s Boar…
07:00 December 7, 2022
The United States-based Center for Jewish History is launching a project to provide genetic tests to Holocaust survivors and their children. The test…
05:14 December 7, 2022
China on Wednesday announced changes to its severe “zero-COVID” policy. The policy recently led to protests and calls for President Xi Jinping to res…