2024-12-03 Rohingya Men Leaving Refugee Camps to Fight in Myanmar
The Rohingya are an ethnic group from Myanmar. They have been displaced from that country and many now live in some of the world’s largest refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh.…
2024-12-03 South Korean Man Guilty of Gaining Weight to Avoid Military Service
A South Korean court has found a man guilty of purposefully gaining weight to avoid completing required service in the country’s military. Seoul’s Eastern District Court sentenced the 26-year-old man…
2024-12-03 Tips for Better Writing
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Today we continue our series of expert suggestions for academic writing. Our guest is Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, assistant professor of the Practice…
2024-12-02 Microsoft’s AI ‘Agents’ Aim to Take over Many Human Duties
Microsoft is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) tool offerings to include “personal agents” which are designed to take over different human processes. The American software company said the new offerings…
2024-12-02 Ancient Footprints Suggest 2 Human Species Were Neighbors in Kenya 1.5 Million Years Ago
Scientists say ancient footprints left in wet dirt on a Kenyan lakeside suggest that two early human ancestors were neighbors about 1.5 million years ago. Two separate species made the…
2024-12-02 Study: More Than 800 Million Have Diabetes Worldwide, Many Untreated
A new study reports that more than 800 million adults have diabetes worldwide. And more than half of those aged over 30 who have the condition are not receiving treatment.…
2024-12-01 Mysterious Creature from Argentina Has Made Its Home in Dubai
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is known for its tall, modern buildings rising high above the desert. But an unusual animal from Argentina, the Patagonian mara, can be found…
2024-12-01 Scientists Publish Version of a Map of Human Body Cells
Researchers have created an early version of a map of some of the human body’s cells. The human body has an estimated 37.2 trillion cells. Each type of cell has…
2024-12-01 Research of Galaxies Supports Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
An international group of scientists has been studying how the structure of the universe has grown over the past 11 billion years. These researchers recently announced findings about how gravity…
2024-11-30 What Does ‘Like Gangbusters’ Mean?
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. With a new project, you may want to start with energy and excitement. If that is the case, you could…
2024-11-29 What Is GivingTuesday?
Since its start in 2012, GivingTuesday, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, has become one of the biggest money-raising days of the year for nonprofits in the United States. In 2022 and…
2024-11-29 The Cask of Amontillado
Our story today is called “The Cask of Amontillado.” It was written by Edgar Allan Poe. Here is Larry West with the story. Storyteller: Fortunato and I both were members…