02:14 February 11, 2024
Australia’s parliament seems likely to pass a new “right to disconnect” bill that the federal government has proposed. The law would prevent employer…
05:18 February 11, 2024
For the first time in more than twenty years, Mexico took China’s place as the leading source of goods imported by the United States. This change, wh…
10:07 February 10, 2024
Dartmouth College, the Ivy League university in New Hampshire, announced last week that it will again require standardized tests from applicants. Ame…
03:09 February 10, 2024
Emperor Constantine the First was an ancient Roman ruler who welcomed Christianity. He helped spread the religion throughout the Roman Empire. Recent…
04:46 February 10, 2024
A 15-year-old boy in Gaza was able to build a device to provide electricity to light the tent he is staying in with his family. Hussam Al-Attar got t…
04:39 February 9, 2024
The gambling industry expects this Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers to smash betting records. The …
05:36 February 9, 2024
On February 10, Asian American communities around the world will ring in the Year of the Dragon. Some Lunar New Year celebrations will be public, lik…
03:06 February 8, 2024
Dong Tao chicken has been a food of choice for generations in Vietnam for the Lunar New Year, or Tet. The rare bird is known for its strangely large …
06:52 February 8, 2024
The rise in private American space missions has led to increasing calls for rules on what can be transported to the moon. Individuals and groups have…
08:27 February 8, 2024
Old sponges from deep in the Caribbean Sea are causing some researchers to think human-caused climate change began sooner than scientists have though…
04:26 February 7, 2024
At one point, it was nearly impossible to see sea otters along the west coast of the United States. The animals were hunted nearly to extinction in t…
05:45 February 7, 2024
Technology company Apple’s new computing device, the Vision Pro headset, became available in stores last week. The device uses augmented reality tech…
04:22 February 7, 2024
A new kind of exercise idea is becoming popular in the United States. Social media is bringing attention to “cozy cardio.” It means doing light cardi…
03:35 February 7, 2024
Just over half of U.S. workers would be willing to take a 20 percent pay cut in exchange for a better quality of life, a recent survey found. Lynn Bu…
06:08 February 6, 2024
Schools around the United States are installing sensors and cameras to identify possible use of vaping devices. Some administrators are also ordering…
04:03 February 6, 2024
Inside a recording room at Queen Mary University of London, several researchers are working with new artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Their aim is…
04:06 February 6, 2024
Boeing announced this week that it was delaying the delivery of about 50 new planes to its customers because of a newly discovered manufacturing prob…
03:54 February 6, 2024
King Charles' cancer was caught early, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Tuesday. Sunak added that the nation is hopeful the king can make a fu…
05:21 February 5, 2024
In California, the second of back-to-back atmospheric rivers on Monday caused heavy rains and mudslides, flooded roadways and cut electric power. Atm…
07:11 February 5, 2024
American pop singer and songwriter Taylor Swift won Album of the Year for Midnights”on Sunday at the Grammy Awards. She has now won that award four t…
04:14 February 5, 2024
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos says cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has broken the world record for total time spent in space. Kononenko passed the record …
04:55 February 5, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. During the southern hemisphere summer, South America is experiencing a sharp increa…
07:16 February 4, 2024
In Japan’s big cities, small restaurants that serve coffee, called cafés, are known for starting trends. First there were pet cafés, then cat cafés. …
05:57 February 4, 2024
A major cancer hospital and research center recently announced it is asking for withdrawals or corrections to at least 37 research papers. Dana-Farbe…
03:01 February 4, 2024
Many people have long believed that bright lights draw, or attract, flying insects. But that is not exactly what is going on, a new study suggests. R…
06:09 February 4, 2024
NASA’s experimental helicopter, Ingenuity, has officially ended its service on Mars after what the U.S. space agency called a “history-making” missio…
07:36 February 3, 2024
While most people know about the Academy Awards in Hollywood — the awards known as the Oscars — few know about the Student Academy Awards. But to tho…
04:22 February 3, 2024
Newly released images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope show 19 spiral galaxies relatively close to our Milky Way. The images offer new info…
08:36 February 3, 2024
Tesla chief Elon Musk wants to move the company’s incorporation, or registration, from the American state of Delaware to Texas. Musk said he will ask…
04:52 February 2, 2024
The American music industry holds its highest honors Sunday night in Los Angeles at the 67th Grammy Awards ceremony. Artists including Taylor Swift a…
03:58 February 2, 2024
A new television show called Expats was filmed in Hong Kong. But people in Hong Kong cannot watch it because of references to independence from China…
05:29 February 2, 2024
Groundbreaking American performer Chita Rivera died on January 30 in New York. She was 91 years old. The famed dancer, singer and actor won many awar…
05:29 February 1, 2024
Canada recently announced a two-year limit on the number of foreign students given permission to study in the country. The move is partly to ease a g…
03:59 February 1, 2024
Tickets for the American football Super Bowl game are among the hardest to get in all of sports. Because of that, some websites that buy and re-sell …
06:28 February 1, 2024
In wealthy countries, like Japan, poverty is sometimes considered a taboo subject. But an Australian filmmaker, Rionne McAvoy, wants to share the sto…
05:23 February 1, 2024
European farmers held protests Thursday to demand government help in dealing with rising costs and environmental rules. One of the protests happened …
07:24 January 31, 2024
An unclear sonar image recorded by a private pilot has renewed interest in a past mystery: What happened to Amelia Earhart, the pilot who disappeared…
06:18 January 31, 2024
Elon Musk says his company Neuralink has placed an experimental brain device in a person in the first human test of the technology. Neuralink describ…
04:38 January 31, 2024
The African violet, a plant from Tanzania that came to the U.S. in the late 1800s, received a special honor from the National Garden Bureau (NGB). Th…
06:48 January 31, 2024
During Taiwan’s presidential election on January 13, talk about voter fraud began to spread. In one widely seen video, an election official counting …
04:15 January 30, 2024
Scientists in Berlin announced recently the first successful embryo transfer in a white rhinoceros. The transfer, which occurred in a southern white …
09:46 January 30, 2024
Britain’s King Charles was treated recently for a medical condition called enlarged prostate. American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently spent …
04:55 January 30, 2024
New research provides evidence that attacks by Myanmar’s military government have damaged religious centers in the country. Religious leaders and hum…
04:02 January 30, 2024
Fifteen American businesses, including semiconductor companies, have expressed interest in investing $8 billion in Vietnam in clean energy projects, …
02:58 January 29, 2024
The social media site X has blocked some searches for Taylor Swift in reaction to an online spread of pornographic deepfake images of the singer. A “…
03:07 January 29, 2024
Japan’s space agency says a spacecraft that landed on the moon earlier this month has regained power and is continuing its mission. Officials from th…
07:43 January 29, 2024
Gene treatments are being credited with permitting several children born with deafness to hear again. Gene therapy is a medical treatment that aims t…
06:27 January 29, 2024
A court in Hong Kong has ordered one of China’s largest property developers to sell all its property to pay back creditors. The financial process is …
03:12 January 28, 2024
Scientists have found four groups of emperor penguins in Antarctica that they did not know about before. These groups, called “colonies,” were found …
04:23 January 28, 2024
Imagine that you are in a crowded place. You do not notice, but someone is watching you and learns your iPhone passcode. Then, they steal your phone.…