05:29 April 22, 2024
A new report from two international climate agencies has found that Europe is the fastest-warming major land mass in the world. The report for 2023 i…
04:40 April 22, 2024
A new report suggests that the world had its biggest year for new wind power projects in 2023. The Global Wind Report, published recently by the Glob…
09:25 April 22, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. For people who garden, April is an important month. Whether you live in the norther…
05:28 April 22, 2024
Tensions over strong opinions about Israel’s war in Gaza are spreading at some universities around the United States. On Monday, Columbia University …
03:09 April 21, 2024
An ancient giant snake in India may have been longer than a school bus and weighed up to a metric ton, researchers reported Thursday. Ancient remains…
06:24 April 21, 2024
The American space agency NASA says it is seeking a faster, less costly plan to transport Martian rock samples to Earth. The search for a new plan co…
03:50 April 21, 2024
Earth Day celebrates its 54th anniversary on Monday, April 22. On this date each year, millions of people around the world mark the importance of pro…
08:07 April 20, 2024
Activists say visa denial rates for African students seeking higher education in the United States are too high. Fanta Aw is executive director of NA…
05:13 April 20, 2024
An ancient fossil found by a girl and her father on a beach in England belongs to a creature that might have been among the largest animals ever on E…
05:15 April 20, 2024
Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun. It is the second biggest black hole known in the Mi…
08:34 April 19, 2024
Alexsandrah is a fashion model in London. She has a twin. But her twin is not her sister. The twin is a product of Artificial Intelligence, or AI. Wh…
04:47 April 19, 2024
Arab Americans have long been a part of life in the United States. A small museum in Dearborn, Michigan is trying to tell their stories. Called the A…
05:47 April 18, 2024
An American cement maker has developed a technology that it says cuts levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) during production. The International Energy Agen…
09:41 April 18, 2024
Economic experts and business owners in the United States say immigrant workers have helped keep the country from falling into a recession. Economist…
06:52 April 18, 2024
Half of the world’s 75 poorest countries are getting poorer compared to the richest economies. That finding comes from the World Bank. The developmen…
06:29 April 17, 2024
Dinosaurs existed for 165 million years. The animals’ evolutionary success was partly due to their fast growth rate. A new study finds that this patt…
04:23 April 17, 2024
The coffee you had this morning could have its beginnings some 600,000 years ago. Using genes from coffee plants from around the world, researchers b…
06:18 April 17, 2024
A report by a cybersecurity company suggests that nearly half of the world’s internet traffic is now produced by computer systems called bots. A bot …
05:56 April 17, 2024
Record rainfall in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) flooded streets in the desert nation and closed Dubai International Airport on Wednesday. The state…
05:29 April 16, 2024
An illustrated edition of Margaret Atwood’s book The Handmaid’s Tale was released in 2019. The book is widely considered a classic work about the opp…
05:42 April 16, 2024
Scientists say coral reefs around the world, from Australia to Kenya, are experiencing bleaching for the fourth time in the last 30 years. They say t…
05:40 April 16, 2024
A U.S.-based developer of a brain-computer implant is reportedly preparing to carry out major testing of its device on humans. The company is called …
04:51 April 15, 2024
A new study has found that 41 percent of cancer drugs receiving accelerated government approval do not improve survival or quality of life. The U.S. …
04:23 April 15, 2024
The first criminal trial of a former American president opened Monday in New York City. Donald J. Trump faces 34 charges of falsifying business recor…
05:54 April 15, 2024
United States and Chinese military planners are preparing for a new kind of warfare. The warfare of the future is likely to involve groups of air and…
05:59 April 15, 2024
The number of Indian migrants entering the U.S. without legal permission has grown in recent years. In the past, Indian migrants interested in the U.…
05:21 April 14, 2024
Piet De Staercke of Belgium, his wife and their two sons worried about how long it would take to get through passport control at Dulles Airport in Vi…
05:56 April 14, 2024
The American space agency NASA has announced new efforts to develop and test vehicles designed to explore the moon. Earlier this month, NASA said it …
05:49 April 14, 2024
Serbian Zeljko Ilicic saved his first horse from death 12 years ago and found his calling. Ilicic is now 43. He set up the Balkan country’s only hors…
05:29 April 13, 2024
The cost of attending a top college in the United States could be as much as $95,000 this year. That total includes tuition as well as meals and livi…
05:14 April 13, 2024
In a social media video, American Grace Xu told her 300,000 TikTok followers she was likely to lose her job. She was right, she tells them in a later…
06:14 April 13, 2024
There is a strong smell that comes off Ratna Raju’s farm in the southern Andhra Pradesh state of India. The smell comes from a mixture of natural mat…
03:40 April 12, 2024
Tokyo visitors can now join a special tour of one of the Japanese city's modern wonders: its public toilets. Penelope Panczuk recently went on the To…
05:00 April 12, 2024
German software developer Andres Freund was running performance tests last month when he noticed strange behavior in a little-known program. He decid…
09:10 April 11, 2024
Next time you see a globe, close your eyes, and turn it quickly so it spins. Then stop it with your finger. Chances are that you will stop on a body …
07:24 April 11, 2024
In the middle of the 20th century, computer scientists dreamed of building a computer as smart as humans. Now, tech companies are in a race to build …
04:30 April 11, 2024
Cities and towns in western Russia and Kazakhstan are facing heavy flooding. Europe's third-longest river, the Ural, burst a dam causing floods that …
06:10 April 10, 2024
ChatGPT developer OpenAI has introduced a new tool that it says can reproduce human voices with just a short audio sample. The tool is among several …
04:01 April 10, 2024
Peru's Andes Mountains might be home to the oldest person ever to have lived — at the age of 124. The South American country’s government has claimed…
05:43 April 10, 2024
China can produce and sell a lot of very low-cost electric vehicles and solar panels. This worries the U.S. Treasury Department, President Joe Biden …
08:43 April 10, 2024
The Yanomami tribe of Brazil is the largest native tribe in the Amazon rainforest. The group has little contact with the rest of Brazil. But a recent…
04:48 April 9, 2024
During the COVID-19 pandemic, public officials brought renewed attention to indoor air quality in schools. Improving ventilation and airflow was cons…
05:47 April 9, 2024
The European Union’s climate agency, Copernicus, says the world’s temperature averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius in March. The latest monthly temperature…
05:34 April 9, 2024
What do Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates have in common – aside from their fame? They are all left-handed. But why are 10 percent of people le…
03:04 April 8, 2024
United States health officials are warning of an increase in rare bacterial illnesses that can lead to meningitis. It is a serious and often deadly d…
05:05 April 8, 2024
Some of the deadliest diseases to infect humans have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. The virus that causes AIDS, for example,…
05:15 April 8, 2024
The Roman Catholic Church has declared its opposition to sex change operations and surrogacy. The Vatican said those activities violate human dignity…
04:34 April 8, 2024
America’s best-selling vehicle has not changed during the past 42 years. And some people might be surprised to learn that the top seller is not a car…
03:07 April 7, 2024
The American space agency NASA says it wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to follow time on its own clock for the moon. It would not be c…
07:58 April 7, 2024
Fake News Cleaner is one of several organizations in Taiwan that fights false information on the internet. Other fact-checking groups include Co-fact…