06:29 April 17, 2024
Dinosaurs existed for 165 million years. The animals’ evolutionary success was partly due to their fast growth rate. A new study finds that this patt…
04:23 April 17, 2024
The coffee you had this morning could have its beginnings some 600,000 years ago. Using genes from coffee plants from around the world, researchers b…
06:18 April 17, 2024
A report by a cybersecurity company suggests that nearly half of the world’s internet traffic is now produced by computer systems called bots. A bot …
05:56 April 17, 2024
Record rainfall in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) flooded streets in the desert nation and closed Dubai International Airport on Wednesday. The state…
05:29 April 16, 2024
An illustrated edition of Margaret Atwood’s book The Handmaid’s Tale was released in 2019. The book is widely considered a classic work about the opp…
05:42 April 16, 2024
Scientists say coral reefs around the world, from Australia to Kenya, are experiencing bleaching for the fourth time in the last 30 years. They say t…
05:40 April 16, 2024
A U.S.-based developer of a brain-computer implant is reportedly preparing to carry out major testing of its device on humans. The company is called …
04:51 April 15, 2024
A new study has found that 41 percent of cancer drugs receiving accelerated government approval do not improve survival or quality of life. The U.S. …
04:23 April 15, 2024
The first criminal trial of a former American president opened Monday in New York City. Donald J. Trump faces 34 charges of falsifying business recor…
05:54 April 15, 2024
United States and Chinese military planners are preparing for a new kind of warfare. The warfare of the future is likely to involve groups of air and…
05:59 April 15, 2024
The number of Indian migrants entering the U.S. without legal permission has grown in recent years. In the past, Indian migrants interested in the U.…
05:21 April 14, 2024
Piet De Staercke of Belgium, his wife and their two sons worried about how long it would take to get through passport control at Dulles Airport in Vi…
05:56 April 14, 2024
The American space agency NASA has announced new efforts to develop and test vehicles designed to explore the moon. Earlier this month, NASA said it …
05:49 April 14, 2024
Serbian Zeljko Ilicic saved his first horse from death 12 years ago and found his calling. Ilicic is now 43. He set up the Balkan country’s only hors…
05:29 April 13, 2024
The cost of attending a top college in the United States could be as much as $95,000 this year. That total includes tuition as well as meals and livi…
05:14 April 13, 2024
In a social media video, American Grace Xu told her 300,000 TikTok followers she was likely to lose her job. She was right, she tells them in a later…
06:14 April 13, 2024
There is a strong smell that comes off Ratna Raju’s farm in the southern Andhra Pradesh state of India. The smell comes from a mixture of natural mat…
03:40 April 12, 2024
Tokyo visitors can now join a special tour of one of the Japanese city's modern wonders: its public toilets. Penelope Panczuk recently went on the To…
05:00 April 12, 2024
German software developer Andres Freund was running performance tests last month when he noticed strange behavior in a little-known program. He decid…
09:10 April 11, 2024
Next time you see a globe, close your eyes, and turn it quickly so it spins. Then stop it with your finger. Chances are that you will stop on a body …
07:24 April 11, 2024
In the middle of the 20th century, computer scientists dreamed of building a computer as smart as humans. Now, tech companies are in a race to build …
04:30 April 11, 2024
Cities and towns in western Russia and Kazakhstan are facing heavy flooding. Europe's third-longest river, the Ural, burst a dam causing floods that …
06:10 April 10, 2024
ChatGPT developer OpenAI has introduced a new tool that it says can reproduce human voices with just a short audio sample. The tool is among several …
04:01 April 10, 2024
Peru's Andes Mountains might be home to the oldest person ever to have lived — at the age of 124. The South American country’s government has claimed…
05:43 April 10, 2024
China can produce and sell a lot of very low-cost electric vehicles and solar panels. This worries the U.S. Treasury Department, President Joe Biden …
08:43 April 10, 2024
The Yanomami tribe of Brazil is the largest native tribe in the Amazon rainforest. The group has little contact with the rest of Brazil. But a recent…
04:48 April 9, 2024
During the COVID-19 pandemic, public officials brought renewed attention to indoor air quality in schools. Improving ventilation and airflow was cons…
05:47 April 9, 2024
The European Union’s climate agency, Copernicus, says the world’s temperature averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius in March. The latest monthly temperature…
05:34 April 9, 2024
What do Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates have in common – aside from their fame? They are all left-handed. But why are 10 percent of people le…
03:04 April 8, 2024
United States health officials are warning of an increase in rare bacterial illnesses that can lead to meningitis. It is a serious and often deadly d…
05:05 April 8, 2024
Some of the deadliest diseases to infect humans have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. The virus that causes AIDS, for example,…
05:15 April 8, 2024
The Roman Catholic Church has declared its opposition to sex change operations and surrogacy. The Vatican said those activities violate human dignity…
04:34 April 8, 2024
America’s best-selling vehicle has not changed during the past 42 years. And some people might be surprised to learn that the top seller is not a car…
03:07 April 7, 2024
The American space agency NASA says it wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to follow time on its own clock for the moon. It would not be c…
07:58 April 7, 2024
Fake News Cleaner is one of several organizations in Taiwan that fights false information on the internet. Other fact-checking groups include Co-fact…
05:27 April 7, 2024
The American space agency’s Mars explorer, Curiosity, has reached a new area of the planet Mars as it searches for evidence of water and possible lif…
09:08 April 6, 2024
Students like Jeannie Tarnue of Annandale, Virginia, have a chance to say a lot about themselves on their college applications. They can tell about c…
04:05 April 6, 2024
As he drives slowly across snow, Nils Mathis Sara drops food on the ground for hundreds of his reindeer to eat. His animals live in Finnmark, the nor…
04:49 April 6, 2024
Wildlife officials in Thailand released a plan on Wednesday to bring peace to a central city after at least 10 years of human-monkey conflict. The ma…
03:52 April 5, 2024
American music star Beyoncé released her new album Cowboy Carter last week. The singer said the country music record was born of an earlier experienc…
06:30 April 5, 2024
On April 3, Taiwan was hit by its most powerful earthquake in 25 years. The earthquake killed at least 12 people and injured more than 1,000. The ear…
08:21 April 4, 2024
The heavy rains and flooding in early March destroyed homes and killed people in West Sumatra. It marked the latest deadly natural disaster in Indone…
10:20 April 4, 2024
People around the world are worried that water for drinking, cooking and cleaning is getting harder to find. Many believe changes in their climate ar…
03:57 April 4, 2024
Seven World Central Kitchen workers died in an Israeli airstrike on April 1 in Gaza. The killings disrupted a flow of badly needed food into Gaza, as…
05:40 April 3, 2024
Engineer Antonia Toma works at a research center in Romania that holds one of the world’s most powerful operating lasers. Recently, Toma studied the …
05:00 April 3, 2024
A new study offers an answer to the question of where early humans traveled after leaving Africa. Scientists say modern humans, or Homo sapiens, deve…
05:06 April 3, 2024
Google has agreed to destroy billions of personal data records to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of secretly following users’ internet act…
05:38 April 3, 2024
Prisoners in the U.S. state of New York have taken legal action against the state corrections department. They started the measure over the state’s d…
07:36 April 2, 2024
Research published in March found that a free meal program in schools was connected with a reduction in childhood obesity in the United States. Anna …
05:10 April 2, 2024
Researchers recently announced that they have found qualities of the main black hole in our Milky Way Galaxy that they did not know about before. Bla…