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Art Deco is an international artistic style that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Now, interest in the style and its qualities is growing. A new g…
05:01 January 16, 2025
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Even as temperatures kept dropping in China’s northeastern “ice city” of Harbin, ex…
03:07 January 15, 2025
A spacecraft recently sent back some of the best close-up pictures yet of the planet Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer…
08:35 January 15, 2025
At this year’s CES show in Las Vegas, Nevada, crowds from around the world came to see the latest products built with artificial intelligence (AI). C…
05:14 January 15, 2025
Greenland is the world’s largest island and a self-governed territory of Denmark. About 57,000 people live there, mainly along its coasts. Most of Gr…
08:06 January 14, 2025
Many historians say U.S. President Ronald Reagan helped defeat the former Soviet Union and end the Cold War. Reagan’s efforts included giving support…
06:29 January 13, 2025
A century ago, iodine deficiency affected children across much of the United States. The problem mostly disappeared during the 1900s after iodine was…
07:28 January 13, 2025
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle Report. As the new year begins, some people see an opportunity for change and improvement. …
07:00 January 12, 2025
NASA says a spacecraft that has been examining the sun’s outermost atmosphere recently got closer to our Earth’s star than any past explorer has. The…
06:21 January 12, 2025
Past research suggested drinking alcohol in moderate amounts could be good for the heart. But a growing number of public health experts now advise pe…
04:42 January 9, 2025
The American Kennel Club, or AKC, has named another kind of dog to its registry. Say hello to the Danish-Swedish farmdog. Or maybe say "hej," the wor…
05:32 January 8, 2025
When Jimmy Carter ran for president, he wanted the color green to be used in his campaign instead of red, white and blue. Green showed up on almost e…
06:45 January 8, 2025
As the date nears for a possible U.S. ban on the video sharing service TikTok, some small companies are saying such a ban would hurt their business. …
05:00 January 8, 2025
Pope Francis has named the first woman to lead a major office of the Roman Catholic Church. On Monday, he chose an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambil…
05:38 January 7, 2025
Sister Inah Canabarro was born in 1908. She was six years old when The First World War began in 1914. The soccer-loving nun from Brazil is believed t…
06:35 January 7, 2025
Some experts say damage to the Everglades ecosystem began when a highway connecting the cities of Tampa and Miami in Florida was built in 1928. The E…
03:47 January 6, 2025
Buddhist nuns in Nepal are once again performing martial arts for the public after a five-year break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The women recen…
06:26 January 6, 2025
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. When her husband gave her a weighted blanket to help her sleep, Rhonda James did no…
05:37 January 6, 2025
The impeachment late last month of South Korea’s acting President Han Duck-soo has deepened political division in the country. He had replaced Presid…
02:14 January 5, 2025
Researchers in Russia's Siberia area are showing the public what they say are the 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth. Melting permafrost led t…
04:40 January 5, 2025
The world will have to wait until 2026 for the next total solar eclipse. However, the sky promises plenty of other big events in 2025. The new year s…
07:45 January 5, 2025
As we enter the new year, we take a look back at some of the biggest space stories of 2024. Historic private moon landing Nearly one year ago, a priv…
03:35 January 3, 2025
Every Friday, musician Enes Salman performs the Sevdalinka, an ancient form of love song from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sevdalinka was recently include…
08:10 January 2, 2025
On a Sunday afternoon in Mexico City’s Roma neighborhood, Rosa María Espinosa joins about 80 men in a park to play poleana. The almost 100-year-old g…
03:44 January 2, 2025
Laiba Rashid is a 22-year-old Pakistani student in a special training program in the city of Lahore. The program, called Women on Wheels (WOW), teach…
08:01 January 1, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools that permit people to produce online reviews have put sellers, service providers and buyers in unfamiliar territor…
06:29 January 1, 2025
Scientists have used ancient genes to learn more details about contact between Neanderthals and humans tens of thousands of years ago. Results of two…
06:15 January 1, 2025
Indonesia has the world’s largest known supply of nickel and major supplies of valuable minerals, including cobalt and bauxite. However, the mining i…
06:33 December 31, 2024
In the Education Tips series, education experts in the United States give you ideas about how you can improve your English skills. This week, Eli Hin…
08:05 December 31, 2024
A sloth is a furry animal that lives mainly in South and Central America. It moves very slowly and spends most of its time in trees. But thousands of…
05:32 December 31, 2024
Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki said receiving a Nobel Peace Prize has given them new energy to campaign for nuclear …
05:46 December 30, 2024
Drug use among teenagers has continued to drop since the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a large national study says. The federally financed Mo…
06:32 December 30, 2024
California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu. It is affecting milk cows in that state and causing illnesses in…
10:09 December 30, 2024
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. His presidency was marked by rising inflation and unemployment. He helped negotiate a …
02:33 December 29, 2024
A large frog species that lived alongside dinosaurs and is considered a "living fossil" is now losing ground in its native Chile. Climate change and …
07:05 December 29, 2024
Throughout 2024, we saw further development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and new legal action brought against technology companies. Here i…
06:01 December 29, 2024
What is the best way to repair an overgrown garden? Garden expert for the Associated Press Jessica Damiano believes she knows the answer. Here are so…
08:52 December 27, 2024
Popeye the Sailor and the Belgian boy reporter Tintin lead the class of characters and works of art to enter public domain in 2025. On January 1, 202…
04:22 December 26, 2024
Nearly half of American teenagers – children ages 13 to 17 - say they are online “constantly” despite concerns about the effects of social media and …
03:26 December 25, 2024
Recent research suggests that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look — and possibly as old as the planet itself. Instead of being 400 million yea…
05:14 December 25, 2024
As we near the end of 2024, we are looking back at the top terms people searched for on Google during the year. Each year, Google releases its “Year …
06:06 December 25, 2024
Japanese business leader Masayoshi Son and President-elect Donald Trump recently met at Trump’s property, Mar-a-Lago, in the southeastern U.S. state …
06:11 December 24, 2024
A non-profit group in Greece uses small horses to provide pet therapy to sick and disabled people. But the organization is now considering its future…
05:32 December 23, 2024
“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose…” This classic song written by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé in 1944 has long brought …
05:33 December 23, 2024
Winter is settling in across much of the United States, with dropping temperatures, snowfall and icy roads. But the cold season does not mean weeks o…
07:09 December 23, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. For a healthy diet, people should eat more beans, peas and lentils. They should eat…
04:51 December 22, 2024
Researchers in Australia are using a robot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the way farmers raise cattle. The robot has four wheels…
07:34 December 22, 2024
The American space agency NASA says it has found the likely cause of a crash that grounded its Mars helicopter Ingenuity. The finding comes after NAS…
04:07 December 22, 2024
One by one, volunteers rescue and repair toys that show the marks of use. They sew clothing and brush fur and hair, add filling and dress the toys. T…
04:28 December 20, 2024
A Japanese artist who creates detailed designs on fallen leaves says the process gives the leaves new life and also helps keep him healthy. The artis…