09:57 March 3, 2024
Vladimir Kara-Murza is a critic of the Russian government. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison last year on charges of treason for speaking agains…
10:03 March 2, 2024
College professors and their students often say they should be permitted to pursue knowledge without too many restrictions from the government. One o…
04:46 March 2, 2024
Our very ancient animal ancestors had tails. Why don’t we have them now? From the time of Charles Darwin, a scientist from the 1800s who studied evol…
05:20 March 2, 2024
U.S. health officials are urging older adults to get an additional updated COVID-19 vaccine shot. The advice for Americans 65 and older was recently …
06:04 March 1, 2024
On a recent cold winter night in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, long lines of people began to form in a public parking area. The crowd was gathering fo…
04:49 March 1, 2024
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report on Wednesday that public waste creation will greatly increase by 2050. The rise will…
03:12 February 29, 2024
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is on an island halfway between Europe and the North Pole. It contains frozen seeds of food crops from around the worl…
04:24 February 29, 2024
The pilots started their jet engines on a runway in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai on Wednesday. But they were not preparing to fly an aircra…
04:51 February 29, 2024
There was a time when activists and reporters in Cuba had to speak in code or meet in European embassies to avoid government observation. Now, the in…
04:42 February 29, 2024
The U.S. Army recently announced new structuring plans for its forces. The plans involve cutting many unfilled jobs after hiring efforts failed to br…
06:11 February 28, 2024
Internet search companies have already built artificial intelligence (AI) tools into their systems. And the use of AI systems to support internet sea…
05:26 February 28, 2024
A United Nations official warned Tuesday that the Gaza Strip is at high risk of famine, an extreme lack of food, if the war there does not stop soon.…
05:17 February 28, 2024
South Korea’s fertility rate, which already is the world’s lowest, dropped again in 2023. This means that the number of babies a South Korean woman i…
07:03 February 27, 2024
Derry Oliver was in fifth grade when she first talked to her mother about seeing a therapist. They were moving to New York City. Derry had to live wi…
04:50 February 27, 2024
A long-term study in China has shown that a series of changes take place in the brains of people who get Alzheimer’s disease long before they present…
04:43 February 27, 2024
The number of babies born in Japan last year fell to a new low for an eighth straight year, government data shows. In addition, the number of marriag…
07:23 February 27, 2024
This year, 2024, is a leap year. February 29 is known as “leap day.” But what is behind this rare extra day on the calendar? Everyone knows the Earth…
03:31 February 26, 2024
A brain wasting disease called frontotemporal dementia has gained attention after television and film personalities said they suffered from it. In a …
06:34 February 26, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. The U.S. food and drug agency has approved a medication already used to treat the b…
06:21 February 26, 2024
Worker shortages in the United States have led some companies to invest in machines to do some of the work they cannot find people to do. The compani…
05:52 February 26, 2024
South Korea’s government has warned young doctors to return to work before February 29 or face possible punishments. About 9,000 young doctors starte…
04:07 February 25, 2024
Do you remember all those cicada videos from the United States in 2021? Well, prepare for a repeat performance this year. The insect show begins as e…
06:30 February 25, 2024
It is one of Earth’s loudest sounds in the ocean: the “singing” of whales. Now scientists think they have an idea of how baleen whales do it. They sa…
06:32 February 25, 2024
Astronomers say they may have discovered the brightest object ever observed in the universe. The discovery involves a distant space object known as a…
08:55 February 24, 2024
Students must learn academic writing and research methods when moving from high school to college. That is why universities require a first-year writ…
07:36 February 24, 2024
The Roman Catholic Church has been trying for years to inform the public that its “secret” collection of documents is not secret. The Vatican has ope…
04:42 February 24, 2024
Government scientists are aiming to replace coral at seven places off the Florida Keys island group. But The Associated Press reports three fourths o…
05:56 February 23, 2024
The polonaise is a traditional Polish dance that was once banned in the country. Now, the United Nations is honoring the dance. UNESCO stands for the…
05:28 February 23, 2024
Researchers from Cuba are working with a Canadian partner to learn more about migratory birds that travel between North America and Cuba each year. D…
04:59 February 23, 2024
A private spacecraft has successfully touched down on the moon, marking the first U.S. lunar landing in more than 50 years. The American space agency…
07:45 February 22, 2024
On February 20, 1824, British scientist and Christian clergyman William Buckland spoke before the Geological Society of London. He described the find…
09:34 February 22, 2024
Luciana de Oliveira considers herself transnational. That means she is more than one nationality. de Oliveira grew up in Brazil, but she moved to the…
05:59 February 22, 2024
The Supreme Court of Alabama has ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law. The ruling immediately influenced the way fert…
02:14 February 21, 2024
The first human patient who received a brain chip from Neuralink appears to have fully recovered. The patient is able to control a computer mouse usi…
06:26 February 21, 2024
A new study found that a majority of retired people who experienced virtual reality (VR) said they liked using the technology. The study is part of a…
06:12 February 21, 2024
For five years, a New York City man lived for free in a famous central New York City hotel. He made use of a little-known housing rule to avoid payin…
04:27 February 21, 2024
South Korea's biggest hospitals canceled medical procedures and turned away patients seeking emergency care on Wednesday. The moves came after thousa…
05:52 February 20, 2024
When Clarissa Haglid completed culinary school at the Delaware Food Bank last summer, it was the first time she had graduated from anything in her li…
05:59 February 20, 2024
Charlotte has spent much of her life in captivity at a non-profit aquarium in North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains. She is an ocean animal called a…
03:30 February 20, 2024
The maker of ChatGPT recently announced its next move into generative artificial intelligence. San Francisco-based OpenAI’s new text-to-video generat…
03:39 February 20, 2024
Japan’s economy has dropped to the fourth largest in the world. It fell behind Germany after its economy shrank in the last quarter of 2023. The Japa…
05:10 February 19, 2024
A group of environmental organizations is seeking an official declaration that American horseshoe crabs are endangered. The groups have requested the…
04:20 February 19, 2024
A new study suggests that the climate change diet might not be good for polar bears. With Arctic sea ice declining, many polar bears have to go to la…
04:36 February 19, 2024
Trying to grow grass in the deserts or other dry places can seem like a losing battle. As a result, many people who live in such climates will use ro…
08:39 February 19, 2024
Many people who find out they have cancer are able to survive the disease because of effective drugs. Treating cancer with certain drugs is known as …
05:46 February 18, 2024
Starting this year, six- to twelve-year-olds in California will be required to learn cursive handwriting. The return to handwriting comes after many …
05:41 February 18, 2024
Microsoft says state-supported online attackers from Russia, China, and Iran have been using its OpenAI tools to possibly trick targets and gain info…
06:57 February 18, 2024
Scientists are warning of the possible collapse of an Atlantic Ocean current system that would likely lead to worldwide climate changes. Researchers …
09:05 February 17, 2024
Several top U.S. universities say they will require standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT from applicants again. Some of them went “test-optiona…
04:49 February 17, 2024
Health officials in the American state of Alaska have known for nine years about a virus causing rare, mild illness. But a recent case that resulted …