Australian researchers say a treatment found in the venom of one of the world's deadliest spiders could save the lives of heart attack victims. A team from the University of Queensland studied the poison from the Fraser Island funnel-web spider in ea...
Troops surrounded Tunisia's parliament building Monday, blocking its speaker from entering. The move came after the president suspended the legislature and dismissed the prime minister following nationwide protests. Protesters were angry over the cou...
Scientists say they have clearly identified for the first time a moon-forming area around a planet beyond our solar system. The ring-shaped area surrounds an exoplanet called PDS 70c. An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a star outside our solar syst...
Study: Just 7 Percent of Our DNA Is Special to Modern Humans A new study finds that just seven percent of the genome, or all genes, of modern humans is special to that group. It suggests today's humans are extremely similar genetically to their ances...
Russia disconnected from the worldwide internet during tests in June and July, a Russian news service, RBC, reported on Thursday. The information for the report came from documents from a Russian internet security working group. 俄罗斯新闻机构...
Sailors Stuck at Sea, Supply Threatened During Pandemic Captain Tejinder Singh has not set foot on dry land in more than seven months. He is not sure when he will go home. Singh is among tens of thousands of ship workers stuck at sea as the coronavir...
Experts: Southwest Chinas Wild Elephants Need Protection A female elephant makes a rare appearance on the edge of a thick forest in southwest China's Yunnan Province. She eats and cleans up in the water as a large crowd gathers. Usually, visitors hop...
10,000 Amazon Plants, Animals Could Disappear Forever, Scientists Say A new report says that more than 10,000 kinds of living things could disappear forever because of the Amazon rainforest's destruction. The rainforest surrounding South America's Am...
Renewed Attention on Historically Black Colleges, Universities Would you turn down a top national university for a historically black college and university, or HBCU, in the United States? Nikole Hannah-Jones did. Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-w...
Summer Fun with Family Expressions And now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore words and expressions in the English language. And we often explain where they come from and how to use them. In the summer mon...
In Serbia's capital, people are going out again after over a year of restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the new coronavirus. However, the loud music and other noise that comes with it is becoming a problem for people living in Belgrade. Cof...
Concerns Over Racism Prompt Effort to Rename Invasive Fish Four different kinds of carp fish from Asia that now live in lakes and rivers in the United States are called Asian carp. But it is not an official, scientific name. The fish are considered a...
A world financial watchdog says the rise in employees working from home has resulted in a sharp increase in cyberattacks. 一家全球金融监管机构表示，居家办公人员数量的增长导致网络攻击急剧攀升。 The watchdog is the Sw...
In 1896, many birds were killed so women of high social standing in the United States could wear hats made with their feathers. Two women, Minna Hall and Harriet Hemenway of Boston, Massachusetts, asked their friends to help stop the practice. They c...
Greece's Traditional Wooden Boat Building Is a Shrinking Craft Traditional wooden boats, known as caique or kaiki, are an important part of Greek culture. They have been used for centuries to fish and to transport goods, animals, and people. They are...
