06:08 July 3, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools continue to expand in the workplace. And some U.S. states have launched specialized programs to train workers on h…
06:07 July 2, 2024
A 17-year-old vocational school student from rural China is being celebrated on social media after reaching the final round of a math competition. Sh…
03:58 July 2, 2024
Researchers in Shanghai are developing a robot “guide dog” that could help blind people. The robot is currently being tested in Shanghai. The machine…
05:56 July 2, 2024
South Sudan is home to what some wildlife experts say is the world’s largest land animal migration, or seasonal movement of animals. But government o…
04:46 July 1, 2024
Researchers say a new study on an ancient pig-like animal is helping them learn more about brain development in mammals. The animal is known as Gordo…
09:49 July 1, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. As temperatures and humidity rise outside, what happens inside the human body can b…
03:57 July 1, 2024
The United States Supreme Court on Monday ruled that American presidents have "immunity" from prosecution over what the ruling calls "official acts."…
03:25 June 30, 2024
Guinness World Records recently recognized a 41-year-old Brazilian man for having the world’s largest collection of soccer shirts. Cassio Brandão has…
04:42 June 30, 2024
The method of making electricity from the Earth’s natural heat has been moving forward quietly for many years. Recently, that effort has reached a mi…
05:40 June 30, 2024
Two American astronauts have been delayed at the International Space Station (ISS) while engineers try to fix problems with Boeing’s Starliner spacec…
06:02 June 29, 2024
Deadly mass shootings have affected many American communities in recent years. These communities have had to face a decision: Do they keep the buildi…
04:21 June 28, 2024
Saruwaka Kiyoshie is a 74-year-old surfer and classical Japanese dancer. Now Saruwaka is interested in a new event for the 2024 Olympic Games in Pari…
05:38 June 27, 2024
Denmark will tax farm animals such as cattle and pigs for releasing methane, a kind of greenhouse gas, starting in 2030. Some scientists think that g…
06:49 June 27, 2024
The coastal Nigerian community of Ayetoro was founded in 1947. Often called a “Happy City,” it was meant to be a Christian utopia, or perfect place. …
05:25 June 27, 2024
Researchers are seeking to learn why bird flu kills some animals quickly but causes only moderate illness in others. In recent years, bird flu is bel…
05:10 June 26, 2024
Space researchers have observed a big increase in energy at the center of a distant galaxy caused by a very large black hole. They say the discovery …
06:31 June 26, 2024
Shares in American technology company Nvidia have risen sharply during the past year. The increases have given the company a market valuation of more…
07:21 June 26, 2024
Some U.S. cities are building housing, called “micro communities,” that is meant to combat increasing homelessness. The housing units in these commun…
06:20 June 25, 2024
University closures in the United States in recent years have left tens of thousands of students unsure about their education. Some face increased ri…
05:29 June 25, 2024
A species of wild cat in Europe that was almost extinct, or about to disappear, over 20 years ago has returned. Last week, the International Union fo…
04:09 June 25, 2024
A Chinese spacecraft has returned to Earth with rock and soil samples recently collected from the moon. A parachute Tuesday floated the unmanned Chan…
07:33 June 24, 2024
Brazil aims to become a major producer of rare earth metals as Western countries push to gain supplies needed to manufacture high technology devices.…
09:32 June 24, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. For many parents in the United States, finding help for an overweight child is not …
05:13 June 24, 2024
A mysterious rising structure has been discovered in a rural desert area in the western American state of Nevada. The tall, pillar-shaped object is b…
08:24 June 23, 2024
In South Korea, the prayer table of Lee Kyoung-hyun looks similar to those of Korean shamans from hundreds of years ago. It has statues of Buddha and…
05:56 June 23, 2024
The American space agency NASA says a huge star explosion is expected to light up the night sky later this year. NASA describes it as a “once-in-a-li…
03:44 June 23, 2024
A common subject for British mystery stories is a death at a seaside community. But in the northeastern state of Maine, mysterious, real deaths happe…
04:35 June 22, 2024
When voters go to the polls in Brighton, England on July 4, they will get the chance to elect what some people are calling the first artificial intel…
05:36 June 21, 2024
Actor June Squibb is the star of Thelma, a new action-comedy about a grandmother seeking revenge. Her part in the film required many physically deman…
05:40 June 20, 2024
An American breakdancer says she hopes the sport’s debut at the Paris Olympics next month will help energize the Games. Twenty-one-year-old Logan Edr…
04:31 June 20, 2024
Millions of years ago, a huge and powerful hunter flew in the skies above a former sea in what is now Australia. Its large mouth and long, pointed te…
05:48 June 20, 2024
Researchers have made what they call a “spectacular” finding at the Mount Vernon home of America’s first president: almost 30 bottles of preserved fr…
05:58 June 19, 2024
Apple is preparing to release a series of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools on iPhones and other personal devices. Company officials have descri…
05:19 June 19, 2024
Tesla shareholders recently voted by a large majority to approve company chief Elon Musk’s 10-year pay plan. The plan, valued by the company in April…
03:49 June 19, 2024
Thousands of fishermen holding nets stood side by side. They waited for the signal. Suddenly, they rushed to a large area of water and threw in their…
04:47 June 18, 2024
The United Nations children’s agency recently noted that one thousand days have passed since Afghan officials banned girls from attending secondary s…
06:20 June 18, 2024
Today is Juneteenth in the United States. The holiday is over 150 years old but it is still unknown to many people. It marks the end of official slav…
04:37 June 18, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a program to offer a path to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in…
04:46 June 17, 2024
Childhood cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux and three other American civilians went to space in 2021. They travelled in a mission called Inspiration4 …
04:02 June 17, 2024
A new study suggests that people infected with COVID-19 in the past may receive protection against some kinds of common colds. COVID-19 is one of sev…
08:22 June 17, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Prince Bhojwani never thought of himself as a negative person. But three trips to t…
03:35 June 16, 2024
Engineers at the Chinese company Ex-Robots are developing human-like robots at a factory in China’s northeastern coastal city of Dalian. Their goal i…
06:23 June 16, 2024
Stars about the size of our sun are not the most common ones in the Milky Way Galaxy. Much smaller stars are far more common. Of all the stars in our…
05:49 June 16, 2024
Medical device companies Abbott and Dexcom make small devices that attach to the skin and monitor the amount of glucose, or sugar, in the blood. Thes…
07:08 June 15, 2024
International students in the United States are concerned that technology job reductions will make it hard to get a good return on their education. F…
04:38 June 15, 2024
African elephants call each other by and answer to individual names, a new study finds. Such communication is rare in the animal world. African eleph…
04:58 June 15, 2024
Cameroon has one of the world's lowest amounts of health care workers per capita. About a third of trained doctors who completed medical school last …
03:54 June 15, 2024
Greek officials recently announced the discovery of a 4,000-year-old-stone building on the island of Crete. The historical find could block progress …
03:33 June 14, 2024
A team of international researchers says that climate change made recent flooding in southern Brazil twice as likely to happen. It also said that the…
05:07 June 14, 2024
The horse changed human history. And now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to change the horse. Around 4,200 years ago, one particu…