04:32 September 15, 2024
The Brazilian sport of footvolley is a popular activity on sunny days along Rio de Janeiro’s coast. But, recently, people stopped to watch one especi…
07:45 September 15, 2024
ChatGPT and other generative AI tools have raised concerns that chatbots will replace many kinds of workers. Writers, editors, and customer service r…
06:35 September 15, 2024
The American space agency NASA says it has confirmed the long-suspected existence of an electric field that surrounds Earth. A rocket named Endurance…
04:30 September 14, 2024
A sunken Greek village has begun to reappear after water levels dropped in the lake that covered it. Extreme hot, dry weather is blamed for the disap…
04:58 September 13, 2024
During his more than 60-year acting career, James Earl Jones’ voice became a star of its own. Jones died this week at the age of 93. One of Jones' ca…
06:46 September 12, 2024
A mass shooting at an American high school has raised questions about policies restricting cellphone use in classrooms. The shooting took place Septe…
05:54 September 12, 2024
Helium leaks have been a major problem for spacecraft and rockets. Recent reports about Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission have inv…
06:02 September 11, 2024
The world creates about 52 million metric tons of plastic pollution every year, a new study says. More than two-thirds of that plastic comes from the…
06:29 September 11, 2024
Apple has launched its latest device, the iPhone 16. The company said it designed the new phone with the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technolo…
04:40 September 11, 2024
A law that recently passed in Turkey requires the country’s four million stray dogs to be impounded, or put in animal shelters. The legislation aims …
05:11 September 10, 2024
The new school year in the Palestinian territories officially began on Monday. But all schools in Gaza are closed after 11 months of war. There is no…
05:59 September 10, 2024
Some top universities in the United States are reporting drops in the number of Black students in their incoming classes. At other colleges, includin…
04:54 September 10, 2024
American actor James Earl Jones died Monday. He was 93 years old. His agent, Barry McPherson, said Jones died at his home in the Hudson Valley area o…
06:14 September 9, 2024
A European climate service says summer 2024 was the hottest on record. The declaration makes it even more likely that this year will also turn out to…
05:51 September 9, 2024
Most Americans eat ultraprocessed foods every day. These are foods that you cannot make at home because they contain flavors and chemicals that chang…
04:51 September 9, 2024
A powerful ocean storm caused deadly floods and landslides in the northern part of Vietnam over the weekend. Typhoon Yagi is the strongest such storm…
05:52 September 8, 2024
U.S. technology companies are increasingly purchasing or leasing energy assets held by bitcoin miners. These moves come as technology companies hurry…
06:46 September 8, 2024
A private space mission will seek to launch non-astronauts to a high orbit and include the first private spacewalks in history. The American space co…
03:36 September 8, 2024
In the war-damaged streets of northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, 15-year-old Youssef Saad rides his bicycle with his musical instrument strapped o…
03:03 September 7, 2024
A workshop in Taipei, Taiwan, is giving new life to bottle caps, food packaging, old toys, and other kinds of plastic waste. The zero-waste workshop …
04:11 September 6, 2024
One of the most popular foods in South Korea is kimchi. It is a kind of fermented cabbage or other vegetables. Now farmers, manufacturers and scienti…
05:50 September 5, 2024
Increasing amounts of ice have been melting on the continent of Antarctica over the past ten years. Now, scientists are wondering if the increase in …
07:12 September 5, 2024
Japan is a nation so hardworking that the Japanese language has a term for working oneself to death. Now, the government is trying to deal with a lab…
06:52 September 4, 2024
Many people are now holding onto their smartphones longer than in the past. This is true for several reasons. The cost of phones has been rising for …
07:07 September 4, 2024
On a hot summer day, workers recently worked to remove asbestos and hazardous waste at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It is a former nuc…
04:16 September 4, 2024
When Milla Nemoudji divorced her husband following years of physical abuse, she found herself without a way to earn a living. The 28-year-old lived i…
03:38 September 3, 2024
Schoolchildren in the southern Ukrainian city Zaporizhzhia celebrated the traditional first day of school on Sunday. The ceremonies began just hours …
07:24 September 3, 2024
Flerentin Jean-Baptiste missed school so often that he had to repeat his first year at Medford High School near Boston. Jean-Baptiste said, at school…
06:11 September 3, 2024
Polio was driven out of much of the world more than 30 years ago after a series of successful vaccination campaigns. But the viral disease is still s…
05:48 September 2, 2024
American health officials have identified a virus spread by insects in more than 20 people who visited Cuba. The virus is officially called Oropouche…
08:07 September 2, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Becky Litvintchouk did not think she would be able to finish the many tasks needed …
06:57 September 2, 2024
A Zimbabwean who formerly hunted animals illegally is now in a program that turns such poachers into protectors of wildlife. Forty-seven-year-old Tem…
06:07 September 1, 2024
Labor Day is a national holiday to celebrate workers in the United States. The holiday, on the first Monday of September, is on September 2 this year…
11:06 September 1, 2024
Experts and people in the space industry say NASA's decision to send Boeing's Starliner capsule home without astronauts was not unexpected. They also…
04:42 September 1, 2024
Angry drivers honk as cattle slowly march across and feed on the grass in the middle of the streets. It is a common sight for drivers in Nigeria's ca…
05:17 August 30, 2024
Many travelers face a common problem: jet lag. It is the feeling of tiredness people get when traveling a long distance, resulting in a difference in…
03:45 August 29, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that rising ocean temperatures present urgent risks for people living in the Pacific Islands. …
07:20 August 29, 2024
It is after midnight when the windshield fogs up on Thomas Aycock’s pickup truck. He smiles as he slowly drives through the sawgrass and down dirt ro…
04:27 August 28, 2024
Humans hunted and killed almost all northern bald ibis birds by the 17th century. But breeding and rewilding efforts over the last 20 years helped gr…
04:59 August 28, 2024
About 200 freshwater dolphins were found dead in Lake Tefé of the Amazon River in Brazil during a period of severe dry weather last year. That is why…
06:16 August 28, 2024
The social media service X has changed its artificial intelligence (AI) tool after several U.S. states warned that it was spreading election misinfor…
08:15 August 27, 2024
As students return to college across the United States, administrators are preparing for new activism against the war in Gaza. Some have adopted new …
04:21 August 27, 2024
Cambodia has celebrated the return of numerous cultural art pieces stolen during the country’s civil war period. Prime Minister Hun Manet recently le…
04:17 August 27, 2024
Miners in Botswana recently unearthed what officials say is the second largest diamond in mining history. The country’s president Mokgweetsi Masisi p…
06:02 August 26, 2024
The founder and chief executive of the Telegram messaging service, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France over the weekend. The reports said police deta…
06:20 August 26, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Years ago, the traditional advice was to do some stretching before exercising. Over…
02:23 August 26, 2024
Hundreds of California sea lions have taken over San Carlos Beach in Monterey, California, causing officials to close the area to people. Drawn to th…
06:55 August 26, 2024
Mary Meng, a busy worker at a Chinese technology company in Shanghai, says she cannot imagine having a second child. "The work pressure is such that …
06:45 August 25, 2024
The American space agency NASA has launched an instrument to measure the world’s carbon and methane levels in an effort to help fight climate change.…
05:47 August 25, 2024
For tens of thousands of men in Uganda's capital, driving a motorcycle taxi is a way to make a living. For others, the vehicles known as boda-bodas a…