2024-03-05 Popasna – A Town Which Doesn’t Exist
My name is Kateryna Bezruk and I teach online in Ukraine. Someone once said that you should appreciate and enjoy everything that surrounds you. Poposna before 2022 Until the spring…
2024-03-05 US Educators Increasingly Urge Total Phone Bans in Schools
American educators and lawmakers are calling for complete bans on smartphone use by students in schools. Most U.S. schools already have rules restricting phone use in class. But administrators and…
2024-03-04 Locals Worried about Olympic Surfing Event in Tahiti
The Summer Olympic Games this year are in Paris, France. Paris does not have an ocean. So, how do organizers plan to present competition in the sport of surfing? They…
2024-03-04 Why Is Elon Musk Bringing Legal Action Against OpenAI?
Business leader Elon Musk is bringing a legal case against artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI and its chief Sam Altman. Musk is chief of carmaker Tesla and SpaceX and also…
2024-03-04 US Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Stay on Ballots
The United States Supreme Court ruled on Monday that former President Donald Trump can stay on 2024 presidential primary ballots. All nine justices ruled that individual states cannot use the…
2024-03-04 Electrical Device in Brain Might Help with Depression
Deep brain stimulation, or DBS, is an experimental treatment that involves having an electrical device placed in the brain. The treatment gives patients’ brains targeted electrical impulses. Researchers say DBS…
2024-03-03 Costs, Performance Influence Decisions on Electric School Buses
The first electric school buses in the United States began operating about 10 years ago in California. Fewer than one percent of the 489,000 school buses in the U.S. were…
2024-03-03 Life Inside Russia’s Prisons
Vladimir Kara-Murza is a critic of the Russian government. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison last year on charges of treason for speaking against Russia’s war with Ukraine.…
2024-03-03 Three Lessons from the War in Ukraine
Editor’s note: This story is one of the winning entries from the “Teach Us about Ukraine” writing contest sponsored by VOA Learning English and GoGlobal. My name is Kateryna Denysenko;…
2024-03-03 Study: NASA Space Strike Might Have Reshaped an Asteroid
A new study suggests that an asteroid strike by an American spacecraft likely changed the shape of the targeted object. NASA crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in…