05:35 September 12, 2023
Across the United States, schools are working hard to help students catch up in math. Test scores after the pandemic show just how behind students ar…
04:06 September 12, 2023
About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange chicken-sized and bird-like dinosaur with long legs and arms much like wings lived in southeastern Chin…
05:22 September 12, 2023
The U.S. Department of Justice accuses Google Tuesday of using its internet search engine to push out competitors and limit new ideas. Kenneth Dintze…
04:51 September 12, 2023
Officials in Libya say as many as 10,000 people are missing after severe flooding in the northeastern part of the country. The flooding began when Me…
05:21 September 11, 2023
Israeli scientists say they have created a model of a human embryo from stem cells in a laboratory. The embryo model – created without using sperm, e…
04:51 September 11, 2023
Invasive grasses might have played a part in the deadly wildfires that burned Lahaina, Hawaii recently. The grasses have taken over land that was onc…
06:35 September 11, 2023
Ecuador is increasingly at the meeting point of two worldwide trades: bananas and cocaine. The South American country is the world's largest exporter…
05:34 September 11, 2023
Rescue workers continue to search the wreckage of a large earthquake that struck Morocco Friday. Officials say almost 2,500 were killed in the quake,…
05:57 September 10, 2023
Last week, Japan’s space agency launched a rocket carrying a spacecraft designed to explore the moon. The lunar lander is known as the Smart Lander f…
07:16 September 10, 2023
A group of technology investors recently released its plans to create a new “green” city between San Francisco and Sacramento in California. The grou…
03:19 September 10, 2023
People in the American state of Kentucky will be able to legally bet on sporting events for the first time in September. When they do, they also help…
07:49 September 9, 2023
Thirteen American colleges and universities recently announced the creation of a plan to support freedom of speech. The plan is part of an effort des…
03:59 September 9, 2023
A newly discovered comet is passing through our solar system for the first time in more than 400 years. Scientists say star watchers across the North…
07:12 September 9, 2023
The sport of tennis has a problem with waste that many players do not even recognize each time they open a new container of game balls. The balls are…
04:03 September 8, 2023
The Rolling Stones said this week that their first new collection of songs in almost 20 years comes out on October 20. The album will be called Hackn…
05:34 September 8, 2023
India has proposed an alliance to speed up the development of biofuels to support energy transition worldwide. Biofuel is a kind of fuel produced fro…
03:11 September 7, 2023
A small recording room outside the Congolese capital Kinshasa has become a safe space for homeless teenagers. They sing about their life on the stree…
05:06 September 7, 2023
The U.S. Department of State says that nearly 90,000 Afghans have come to the United States through a special federal program since 2021. The program…
05:36 September 7, 2023
Some of Australia’s Indigenous communities are hoping a national vote that would change the country’s constitution could give native people more of a…
03:52 September 6, 2023
For more than 2,000 years, only conqueror Genghis Khan and the Manchus who formed the Qing dynasty had broken through China’s Great Wall. Now, two bu…
04:50 September 6, 2023
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says Earth just had its hottest summer ever in the Northern Hemisphere. Summer ends on September 22 this …
06:24 September 6, 2023
Several Chinese companies have launched government-approved artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to the public. The launches included chatbots from …
05:02 September 6, 2023
India has changed the look of its capital, New Delhi, substantially in preparation for a meeting of international leaders this week. The two-day meet…
06:01 September 5, 2023
An American TV show called Abbott Elementary is a comedy about teachers in a Philadelphia elementary school. The show has been praised for being funn…
05:05 September 5, 2023
Officials at the U.S. Military Academy West Point in New York state recently opened a time capsule that is 195 years old live on the internet. The ev…
05:14 September 5, 2023
Kelly McKernan’s paintings are often striking images of female figures in bright colors of green, blue, pink or purple. The 37-year-old artist from N…
07:04 September 5, 2023
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden recently announced it is extending temporary protection from deportation to migrants from six countrie…
04:56 September 4, 2023
Scientists studying the Atlantic puffin population off the coast of Maine say the birds are now recovering after suffering major losses in 2021. Atla…
05:54 September 4, 2023
Brynn Schulte nearly died two times when she was a baby. At one point she needed emergency surgery for bleeding in her brain. No one knew what was wr…
09:34 September 4, 2023
“That’s where I got shot,” said Rashaad Woods, pointing toward a small store in the city of Knoxville in the state of Tennessee. Nearby are a nightcl…
07:20 September 3, 2023
Spain has spoken loudly through its government, politicians, soccer teams and ordinary citizens to condemn the leader of its soccer federation for ki…
05:17 September 3, 2023
Sky watchers around the world were treated this month to two full moons, a supermoon and a blue moon. The American space agency NASA explains a super…
04:45 September 3, 2023
U.S. President Joe Biden will visit Vietnam on September 10 after attending the 2023 G20 leaders’ meeting in New Delhi, India. Biden is visiting Viet…
03:31 September 3, 2023
The United Nations human rights office says criminal groups have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia into unlawful online scam o…
09:41 September 2, 2023
School leaders at West Virginia University recently proposed cutting almost 10 percent of the university’s study programs and over 100 educators beca…
05:25 September 2, 2023
International health officials are closely following a new version of COVID-19 as it spreads to more countries. The version, or variant, is called BA…
06:54 September 1, 2023
Clear Creek County in Colorado is one of the latest places to begin using mental health teams to answer some emergency 911 calls. Mental health resp…
05:13 August 31, 2023
Voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri can be helpful when asking about something like the weather. But if you want to save someone’s l…
06:34 August 31, 2023
Climate activists have spray painted a boat, blocked private planes from taking off and covered holes in golf courses over the summer. These actions …
06:02 August 31, 2023
Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has long been home to small and mid-sized sustainable businesses. These companies use the area’s nuts, fruits and other ma…
06:37 August 30, 2023
Most people would not connect the country of Sweden with the tradition of fine wine making. It is far north of the famous wine-growing areas in Franc…
05:43 August 30, 2023
Google has launched a tool designed to mark identity on images created by artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The American-based search engine a…
05:43 August 30, 2023
Hurricane Idalia made landfall on the west coast of the American state of Florida on Wednesday. Officials said the dangerous storm brought life-threa…
05:11 August 30, 2023
Military officers in oil-producing Gabon said they had seized power on Wednesday and had put President Ali Bongo under house arrest. The military sei…
03:53 August 29, 2023
Researchers, using information gathered by satellites, say the loss of ice in Antarctica hurts the survival chances of rare seabirds. The large fligh…
03:26 August 29, 2023
A new environmental report says rising air pollution across South Asia can cut life expectancy rates by up to five years. South Asia includes the wor…
03:39 August 29, 2023
A brain doctor in Australia received a huge surprise during an operation on a patient’s brain last year: “Gosh, what is that, it’s moving. Take it ou…
04:05 August 28, 2023
A Japanese company is developing digital “clones” of individuals designed to take over some of a person’s daily online duties. The company is Tokyo-b…
05:33 August 28, 2023
In 2017, a workplace accident resulted in Phil Durst losing sight in his left eye. He experienced severe pain from the incident which left him unable…
06:11 August 28, 2023
Forty-two years ago, hospital workers took Maria Angelica Gonzalez’ son from her arms right after birth. Documents say they later told her he had die…