04:51 April 20, 2023
Where is the line between art and advertising? The question is central to a big dispute in a small American town. A large painting in Conway, New Ham…
04:45 April 20, 2023
An international study says ice in Greenland and Antarctica is melting faster than it was about 30 years ago. The study used 50 different satellite e…
04:23 April 20, 2023
A SpaceX rocket successfully launched with the company’s Starship spacecraft Thursday, but the two-part system exploded minutes later and crashed int…
07:28 April 19, 2023
Experts say online gaming services have long presented national security risks that are difficult for governments to control. One such example is the…
04:44 April 19, 2023
In large buildings outside Madrid, Spain’s capital, hop vines grow under special lights and close supervision. A small company believes growing the v…
05:39 April 19, 2023
The United Nations estimates India will pass China to have the world’s largest population sometime later this year. This comes from the U.N. Populati…
05:55 April 19, 2023
In a period of six days, four young people across the United States were shot — one of them to death — for making ordinary mistakes: arriving at the …
06:02 April 18, 2023
Ten years after suspending her studies, Briana Mathis, a 30-year-old mother of two children, is in her first year back at Wallace Community College. …
04:23 April 18, 2023
Businessman Elon Musk says ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence “bots” are too liberal and that he plans to create his own. Musk, the owner of T…
05:07 April 18, 2023
Students of United States history often learn that Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts and Jamestown in Virginia were the earliest settlements in North Am…
05:05 April 18, 2023
Environmental groups and fishing interests are criticizing regional organizations set up by the United Nations to supervise fishing activities around…
04:10 April 17, 2023
The Phantom of the Opera closed Sunday night after 35 years on New York City’s famous Broadway. The musical theater show opened on January 26, 1988. …
04:35 April 17, 2023
Scientists have released a more detailed version of the first image of a black hole. That first image, released four years ago, showed a blurry, roun…
06:13 April 17, 2023
Wildflower meadows have been growing in popularity among gardeners – and for good reason. A meadow is a usually flat area of land that is covered wit…
06:00 April 17, 2023
Over the weekend, fighting broke out between the armies of Sudan's two most powerful generals. Tensions had been rising for weeks between the armed f…
02:59 April 16, 2023
In the Caucasus Mountains nation of Georgia, dumpling-eating is a serious activity. "I'm not Georgian, but the first rule I learnt when I came to Geo…
05:14 April 16, 2023
Life on Earth faced an extreme test of survivability during the Cryogenian Period, which began 720 million years ago. The planet was frozen over most…
05:59 April 16, 2023
American researchers suggest in a new study that humans will need to create very Earth-like conditions to survive for long periods in space. The stud…
05:41 April 16, 2023
Sitting in a restaurant in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, 20-year-old Nastya took slow, deep breaths to calm herself. Her neighborhood had just been bombed aga…
08:36 April 15, 2023
Recent research suggests that there has been a big drop in enrollment in community colleges. Two-year community colleges fill the gap between high sc…
04:24 April 15, 2023
The United States, Panama and Colombia have announced a new campaign designed to reduce traffic on a big illegal migration route. The effort is to ce…
03:44 April 14, 2023
Britain continues preparations for the ceremony to recognize the rule of a new king. The coronation, or crowning, of King Charles III is set for May …
05:03 April 14, 2023
Both the United States and China are considering possible security policies aimed to control the creation of artificial intelligence, or AI. The Bide…
04:30 April 14, 2023
The Seine River, the famous river that goes through Paris, has mostly been off-limits to swimmers since 1923. Although it has been the subject of art…
05:03 April 13, 2023
Scientists, environmental activists, and government officials warn that the Bahamas’ conch population is decreasing because of overfishing. The conch…
06:42 April 13, 2023
A federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday that the abortion drug mifepristone may still be used in the United States for now with some restriction…
02:56 April 13, 2023
A dog is back with his Alaskan islander family after going missing for over one month. Nanuq was found over 200 kilometers away across sea ice. Mandy…
06:33 April 12, 2023
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (or NOAA) recently reported that the atmospheric gas methane increased in 2022. NOAA is the U.S. …
07:19 April 12, 2023
Chinese companies are planning to build an undersea internet link to connect Asia, the Middle East and Europe, Reuters news agency reports. Technolog…
08:08 April 12, 2023
You may have already seen them in some restaurants around the world: robots. They are about the size of a child. They can welcome people and lead the…
07:38 April 12, 2023
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is aiming for new rules to push electric vehicle sales in the United States. Biden wants the Environme…
05:15 April 11, 2023
An elementary school shooting in the U.S. state of Tennessee recently left three 9-year-olds and three adults dead. Now, state legislatures across th…
06:23 April 11, 2023
Marcela Castro’s office in Chihuahua is more than 150 kilometers from the United States-Mexico border. But the distance does not prevent her from ass…
03:09 April 11, 2023
A news organization in Kuwait is using a virtual news announcer created with artificial intelligence (AI). The organization plans for it to present o…
04:37 April 11, 2023
Chinese navy ships reportedly remained in waters around Taiwan on Tuesday, a day after China said it had ended military exercises in the area. Chines…
08:12 April 10, 2023
There are many apps that use mobile phone cameras and other devices that might surprise gardeners. They can provide expert gardening planning and pla…
03:56 April 10, 2023
A humanitarian group called Save Ukraine is working to bring Ukrainian children home from Russia. Ukraine says nearly 20,000 children were illegally …
04:43 April 10, 2023
Taking care of Hawaii's natural environment takes time, people and money. Now the U.S. state wants tourists to help pay for it. That is because growi…
05:56 April 10, 2023
Some of Britain’s fruit growers are reducing their production because it is too costly to grow their crops. James Smith’s family has grown apples on …
03:49 April 9, 2023
A new study suggests that our ability to share other’s feelings, also called empathy, may have very ancient beginnings. The study, published recently…
04:49 April 9, 2023
The American space agency NASA has chosen the astronaut crew that will carry out a planned test mission around the moon next year. The trip is part o…
07:49 April 9, 2023
Early COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, long hours on his computer, and increased stress led U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Daniel Murillo to eat more. Then, pl…
06:04 April 9, 2023
Changing sea levels are affecting freshwater in places like Chellanam, India. In Chellanam, saltwater is moving inland into small bodies of fresh wat…
08:27 April 8, 2023
Willem Aspinall is a 19-year-old student at New College of Florida. He grew up near Chicago. He called his school, near the small city of Sarasota, “…
05:45 April 8, 2023
The United States gets hit by some of the strongest and most destructive storms on Earth. Examples of extreme weather include hurricanes, tornadoes, …
06:23 April 7, 2023
In the early 1980s, Michael Jordan was a great college basketball player at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. No one was sure he would be…
06:13 April 7, 2023
A new study suggests that horses were present in the American West by the early 1600s. That is earlier than most written histories have estimated. Th…
04:58 April 6, 2023
High school students and those who help in their education in Cyprus have developed an unusual robot. The robot uses ChatGPT artificial intelligence …
05:15 April 6, 2023
An organization is using human genetic material to learn about the African roots of 36 American slaves who lived in the late 1700s. The 36 bodies wer…
05:33 April 5, 2023
An effort called the Welcome Blanket project aims to help refugees by giving them hand-made blankets. The project has grown over the years. Recently,…