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…
04:54 April 2, 2024
A United Nations report says that even with hunger being a problem, the world wastes about 19 percent of the food it produces. The report said the wa…
05:54 April 1, 2024
When Google launched Gmail in 2004, it quickly grew into one of the internet’s most popular email services. At the time, though, many people thought …
04:28 April 1, 2024
Dog owners know that their dogs understand and answer commands such as “sit” and “stay.” Many believe that dogs also understand words connected to th…
04:55 April 1, 2024
Researchers have identified two ancient star groupings that appear to be among the Milky Way Galaxy’s earliest parts. The structures are named after …
06:49 April 1, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. The mental health chatbot Earkick greets users with a friendly-looking panda that c…
04:08 March 31, 2024
A 420-meter white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the northern Netherlands could be the start of a new kind of transportation for peop…
06:45 March 31, 2024
Scientists plan to closely study next week’s total solar eclipse to learn new things about the sun and our own planet. The eclipse can be seen on Apr…
04:23 March 31, 2024
Bamboo farming is on the rise in Uganda. The strong and fast-growing crop is seen by the East African government as having real growth possibility. A…
08:51 March 30, 2024
Many European countries have programs that help place students in careers at a young age. In Germany, some students move into education programs at t…
05:47 March 30, 2024
An ongoing bird flu outbreak has killed tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in several parts of the world. Scientists said the virus’ spread als…
06:03 March 30, 2024
In 2007, when a 274-meter-long container ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, it stood firm. No one died, either on the ship or the road…
04:26 March 29, 2024
Humans have been writing by hand for thousands of years. Since ancient times, people have used every tool imaginable to share information, do busines…
05:23 March 29, 2024
Washington D.C. officials say some of the city’s famous cherry trees will need to be cut down as part of a major improvement project. Up to 1.5 milli…
05:10 March 28, 2024
Scientists say new research confirms results of an earlier study suggesting the crash of a spacecraft into an asteroid changed the shape of the targe…
05:56 March 28, 2024
A new study involving stars that formed together shows how lucky Earth is to be in a normal planetary system. Researchers studied 91 pairs of stars t…
05:33 March 28, 2024
Barbara Peraza-Garcia is from Venezuela. She lives in a single-room apartment in Seattle, Washington with her family. The family includes her partner…
05:42 March 27, 2024
Fake photos, videos, and audio are spreading online as a result of the rise and misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. And it is getting harde…
05:38 March 27, 2024
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a law that bans children in the state under the age of 14 from having a social media account. The meas…
06:46 March 27, 2024
Coffee growers in many countries are worried about a new European rule designed to prevent deforestation. Deforestation describes when developers cut…
05:41 March 27, 2024
In southeastern Kenya earlier this year, people from Kasengela village built a special kind of dam. The barrier is called a sand dam. It reduces wate…
03:29 March 26, 2024
Australia will soon begin enforcing stricter visa rules for foreign students. The move comes as official data showed migration hit another record hig…
03:57 March 26, 2024
A container ship smashed into a major bridge in Baltimore, Maryland early Tuesday, causing it to collapse. The accident sent several vehicles and peo…
05:00 March 26, 2024
The United Nations Security Council is demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Some members are concerned that a famine might have begun.…
05:46 March 25, 2024
Scientists recently studied the fossil of a creature that lived in what is now the U.S. state of Texas about 270 million years ago. They named it Ker…
06:03 March 25, 2024
A United Nations report warns that no longer used electronics, called “e-waste,” is increasing worldwide. It adds that recycling rates of e-waste rem…
06:20 March 25, 2024
A new way to fight an extremely aggressive kind of brain tumor is showing promise in two experiments with a small number of patients. For the experim…
06:12 March 25, 2024
Eleven-year-old twins Dao Bao Tran and her brother Do Hoang Trung live on a houseboat in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. But their dreams take them far away.…
06:58 March 24, 2024
U.S. electricity providers are quickly adding batteries to store electricity in large amounts. The batteries are mainly ones called lithium-ion batte…