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…
02:29 June 14, 2024
The number of aquatic animals harvested worldwide by farming is now higher than the amount fished from the wild, the United Nations found. Farmed aqu…
04:17 June 13, 2024
Once a year, millions of Muslims from all over the world travel to Saudi Arabia, to complete an important religious duty called Hajj. The travelers g…
06:55 June 13, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. In the United States, a quiet change is happening at work. Many workers are taking …
09:39 June 13, 2024
The Brazilian ranchers who own the world’s most costly cow call her Viatina-19. The large, white cow is valued at over $4 million. At 1,100 kilograms…
05:02 June 12, 2024
The 2024 Olympic Games open in Paris late next month and experts say especially hot summer weather is likely to return. Temperatures set record highs…
08:32 June 12, 2024
A research group says artificial intelligence companies (AI) could run out of publicly available data for their systems in less than eight years. Tra…
04:31 June 12, 2024
The summer has yet to arrive, but temperatures have reached record-high levels in some places, leading to school closings, wildfires and deaths. In C…
06:57 June 11, 2024
It is a usual school day for third graders at Mount Vernon Community School in Alexandria, Virginia. On one side of the classroom, students surround …
05:45 June 11, 2024
Manufacturers have been reusing and recycling copper for many years. Now they are increasing their efforts because some experts predict that the need…
04:56 June 11, 2024
Two brothers, Liam and Jessin Fisher, were hiking in North Dakota with their father and cousin, Kaiden Madsen, during the summer of 2022. They were l…
03:38 June 10, 2024
The city of Tokyo is launching a campaign to create couples in a country where it is increasingly common for people to be alone. Called “Tokyo Futari…
03:44 June 10, 2024
Scientists have found the genetic root of a disorder that causes intellectual disability. They say the disorder may affect as many as one in 20,000 y…
07:51 June 10, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Scientists are testing next-generation vaccines to deal with the spread of bird flu…
03:10 June 10, 2024
Ukrainian teenager Yelisei Mamonov dreams of attending his country's top technical university one day. For now, he is gaining valuable experience at …
04:28 June 9, 2024
Hafsa Omer wears the red, white, and green flag of Somaliland while playing basketball. The 21-year-old is the captain of the team. Her dream is to o…
04:04 June 9, 2024
The largest digital camera ever built for space scientists is ready to be put in place under the clear skies of northern Chile. The camera can produc…
05:56 June 9, 2024
South Korea has created a new national space agency to increase its capabilities and is aiming for a future Mars landing. President Yoon Suk Yeol rec…
04:44 June 9, 2024
A recent report from the U.N. children's agency UNICEF says that 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That is more than o…