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…
05:36 June 8, 2024
Colleges and universities in the United States are increasingly creating climate change study programs. They are meeting the demand from students who…
05:23 June 8, 2024
Reduced treatment for three kinds of cancer can make life easier for patients without hurting results, doctors reported recently at the world’s large…
08:35 June 8, 2024
The top leaders of the biggest U.S. companies had their pay increase by about 13 percent in 2023. Pay for workers at the same companies rose by only …
05:23 June 7, 2024
How does it feel for rock star Mick Jagger to be back on tour singing and dancing before thousands at 80 years old? "Like being on stage at 78," the …
04:33 June 7, 2024
Agriculture companies are using new methods to change the genes of plants to produce more productive crops. The process of gene-editing is gaining at…
05:46 June 6, 2024
Some Americans have been setting their own “no-buy” rules in an attempt to reduce wasteful spending and save money. Creating no-buy rules themselves …
10:15 June 6, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. The hardest part of Culix Wibonele’s first job in long-term care was not getting hu…
06:02 June 6, 2024
Since April, Nigeria’s government has been arresting illegal miners for reportedly stealing lithium. Lithium is a metal that is used to make batterie…
04:08 June 5, 2024
Boeing launched astronauts into space with its delayed Starliner spacecraft for the first time Wednesday. The launch marked the company’s entry into …
05:54 June 5, 2024
Chinese space officials say a spacecraft has successfully collected samples from the moon and is headed back toward Earth. The unmanned spacecraft, c…
04:31 June 5, 2024
James Kane of New York City is a fisherman. But he does not eat what he catches. Instead of catching fish, he uses powerful magnets attached to long …
07:33 June 5, 2024
President Joe Biden announced an executive action Tuesday that temporarily places restrictions on the number of migrants unlawfully entering the Unit…
06:01 June 4, 2024
There are programs in the United States that aim to support families with their children’s early learning and development. Home visiting programs try…
03:36 June 4, 2024
Some people seem to be born with skill for making art. Ace-Liam Ankrah of Ghana is a good example. He recently set a world record for his painting an…
05:44 June 4, 2024
Very small organisms that live in the world’s farm fields release nitrous oxide gas. Some scientists link the gas to climate change. They are looking…
04:21 June 4, 2024
In 1944, Jake Larson was carrying a backpack with 34 kilograms of gear as the boat he was in got closer to Omaha Beach in France. Omaha Beach was the…
03:50 June 3, 2024
NASA's Lucy spacecraft visited a little asteroid called Dinkinesh last November. The visit, scientists say, unlocks a surprisingly interesting histor…
04:54 June 3, 2024
The East African country of Uganda has begun a nationwide yellow fever vaccination campaign. The aim is for the country to protect its population aga…
06:54 June 3, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. You may have heard of white noise being used to cover or hide background sounds. Bu…
06:17 June 3, 2024
Election officials in Mexico say Claudia Sheinbaum will become the country's first female president. Sheinbaum won a large victory in Sunday’s electi…
03:03 June 2, 2024
How many insects can you count in one hour? That was the question being asked by a group of environmentalists outside of Berlin’s Natural History Mus…
05:41 June 2, 2024
An international team of climate scientists recently released a report on climate change and city growth. They found the effects of heavy rains that …
06:13 June 2, 2024
New examinations of data collected from Venus suggest the planet is more volcanically active than previously thought. The finding is based on radar i…
06:06 June 1, 2024
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the five biggest college sports conferences recently agreed to pay almost $2.8 billion to set…
03:56 June 1, 2024
A scientist in Cuba is raising silkworms native to Asia in hopes the creatures will produce local, high quality silk for clothing. Dayron Martin is a…
03:49 June 1, 2024
For the first time, the number of Americans who use marijuana almost every day has grown greater than the number who drink alcohol almost every day. …
03:08 May 31, 2024
Italy celebrated the return of hundreds of its antiquities from the United States this week. The property included ancient bronze statues, gold coins…
04:58 May 31, 2024
A New York City jury on Thursday found former U.S. president Donald Trump guilty of falsifying business records to influence the outcome of the 2016 …
07:03 May 30, 2024
A low-cost drug mixture is harming young people in the West African country of Sierra Leone. The mixture is called “kush.” Sierra Leone’s President J…