Scientists Tune In to Trees to Monitor Planet’s Health
Healthy forests are key to a healthy planet. But climate change is putting forests under stress. A new system aims to track the trees’ vital signs. VOA’s Steve Baragona has
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Study Links Social Media Addicts, Substance Abusers
Addicted to social media? That’s not just an expression anymore. Scientists have found a connection between excessive social media use and behavior associated with substance abuse. Researchers at Michigan State
Read MoreDesperate Parents and Discount Marijuana: DC in a Shutdown
No city experiences a shutdown quite like Washington. Besides the economic impact, a shutdown warps the nation’s capital on a cultural, recreational and logistical level — touching everybody from garbage
Read MorePlugged in Hives Providing Information on Bee Health
Preliminary numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) suggest that the population of domesticated US honeybees is still declining. The loss in pollinators is due in part to the
Read MoreStudy: Antarctica Ice Loss Increases Six Fold since 1979
Global warming is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before — about six times more per year now than 40 years ago — leading to increasingly high sea levels
Read MoreBees With Circuit Board Backpacks Inform Researchers
Researchers are already using sensors on drones to monitor farmers fields and provide a whole host of statistics from moisture levels to pesticide loads. But drones are energy intensive and
Read MoreBreakthrough In Treating Ebola
In Congo, more than 600 people have contracted the Ebola virus which has claimed close to 400 lives. The disease has been difficult to contain because of conflict in the
Read MoreRobot Animals Serving as Pets to Dementia Patients
A new form of social therapy is powering-on in the U.S. A group of former toy company employees bought a brand from their ex-employer and started developing robotic household animals
Read MoreBreakthrough Made in Treating Ebola Virus
In northeastern Congo, more than 600 people have fallen ill with the Ebola virus, and at least 368 people have died from the disease. It’s been difficult to contain the
Read MoreBritish Clinical Trial Begins on Breathalyzer’s Ability to Detect Cancer
Cancer in your esophagus, the tube that runs from your throat to your stomach, is one of the most frequently reported and a leading cause of cancer deaths around the
Read MoreResearcher: Calf Born to Endangered Pacific Northwest Orcas
Researchers say there’s a new calf among the population of critically endangered killer whales that live in the waters between Washington state and Canada. Ken Balcomb, founding director of
Read MoreJudge: Women Would Lose Birth Control Coverage Under Trump Rules
A “substantial number” of women would lose free birth control coverage under new rules by the Trump administration that allow more employers to opt out of providing the benefit, a
Read MoreUp to 84,000 Americans Hospitalized With Flu in Past 3 months: CDC
An estimated 69,000 to 84,000 Americans were hospitalized due to the flu in the last three months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday. The nation
Read MoreSpaceX launches 10 Iridium Communications Satellites
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 Iridium Communications satellites has blasted off from California. The rocket lifted off at 7:31 a.m. Friday at Vandenberg Air Force Base and arced
Read MoreChina Broadcasts Spacecraft Pictures From Moon’s Far Side
China on Friday broadcast pictures taken by its rover and lander on the moon’s far side, in what its space program hailed as another triumph for the groundbreaking mission to
Read MoreSmartphones Use Apps as Depression Detectives
Could the devices being blamed for teen depression be useful in revealing it? Studies have linked heavy smartphone use with worsening teen mental health. But as teens spend time on
Read MoreScientists: Ocean Temperatures Rising Faster Than Previously Thought
The world’s oceans are rising in temperature faster than previously believed as they absorb most of the world’s growing climate-changing emissions, scientists said Thursday. Ocean heat – recorded by thousands
Read MoreHealthy Baby Born to DRC Mom who Recovered from Ebola
Congo’s Health Ministry says a baby has been born to a mother who recovered from the Ebola virus — a bright spot in an outbreak that is the second-deadliest in history.
Read MoreRepeating Radio Waves From Deep Space Intrigue Scientists
Astronomers in Canada have detected a mysterious volley of radio waves from far outside our galaxy, according to two studies published Wednesday in Nature. What corner of the universe these
Read MorePrice Tag Proposed in US for Tailpipe CO2 Emissions
Drivers on the U.S. East Coast may soon start paying for their climate pollution. Nine states and the District of Columbia have announced plans to introduce a system that puts
Read MoreBangkok Fights Floods with Thirsty Landscaping
When Bangkok’s oldest university called for ideas for a symbol to mark its centenary year, landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom successfully pitched a design for a park. It was intended not
Read MoreZimbabweans Team Up to Fight Youth Substance Abuse
A group of concerned Zimbabweans has started an anti-alcohol and drug campaign, targeting communities in which unemployed young people resort to drinking and using narcotics to alleviate the stress of
Read MoreHow Forgotten Local Plants Could Ease Malnutrition in East Timor
The Australian owners of a restaurant in East Timor are hoping to use their passion for the local cuisine to combat malnutrition in the tiny Southeast Asian nation. East Timor
Read MoreAsteroid-circling Spacecraft Grabs Cool Snapshot of Home
An asteroid-circling spacecraft has captured a cool snapshot of home. NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft took the picture days before going into orbit around asteroid Bennu on New Year’s Eve.
Read MoreUS Carbon Emissions Spike in 2018
After three years of decline, U.S. carbon emissions shot up last year, based on early estimates from an independent research group. The Rhodium Group routinely monitors carbon emissions and their
Read MoreBurundian Entrepreneur Develops Line of Cosmetics to Prevent Malaria
Some 435-thousand people died of malaria in 2017, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa – according to the World Health Organization. An entrepreneur in Burundi has developed a line of
Read MoreChinese Scientist Criticized for Risking ‘Gene-edited’ Babies’ Lives
A leading geneticist who ran the conference where a Chinese scientist said he had made the world’s first “gene-edited” babies condemned him on Monday for potentially jeopardizing lives and having
Read MoreBolivian Bees Under Threat from Coca Pesticides
High up in the Bolivian cloud forest, a woman tends to her bees, smoker in hand, working from hive to hive under a canopy of leaves to delicately gather panels
Read MoreReport: Biggest Estuary in US Hit Hard by Pollution
Heavy rains that brought additional pollution downstream last year contributed to the first decline in a decade to the overall health of the Chesapeake Bay, according to a report released
Read MoreResearchers Offer Alternative to Knee Replacement
Here’s a simple statistic: by 2030, the number of knee replacement surgeries in the U.S. alone is expected to rise over 600 percent. But researchers at Ohio State University’s Wexner
Read MoreHuge Trash-Collecting Boom in Pacific Ocean Breaks Apart
A trash collection device deployed to corral plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii has broken apart and will be hauled back to dry land for
Read MoreSaving Water, Growing Food in the Saudi Desert
In 2016, researchers at Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal University began sounding alarms that the nation is about a decade away from running out of groundwater. The situation is still dire,
Read MoreSwedish Patient Tests Negative for Ebola
Health care officials in Sweden say a patient who was admitted to a hospital with a suspected case of Ebola was found not to be suffering from the highly infectious and potentially
Read MoreEbola Operations Resume in DRC’s North Kivu Province
Ebola control operations have been restored in Democratic Republic of Congo’s conflict-ridden North Kivu province, following pre-election protests late last year, the World Health Organization reports. Anti-government demonstrations preceding presidential
Read MoreSwedish Hospital Isolates Patient Amid Ebola Suspicion
A suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus has been reported by a Swedish hospital, officials said Friday, adding that the patient has been isolated. Region Uppsala, which oversees several
Read MoreInteresting Advances: Plastics That Become Fuel, and Cars That Clean the Air
Ending our dependence on carbon in all of its forms — especially plastics and petroleum products — is a fairly constant endeavor of engineers and entrepreneurs. VOA’s Kevin Enochs reports
Read MoreAfter Historic Flyby, New Horizons Probe Treks Deeper on Hunt for Moons
After studying a space rock some 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft set off on a new hunt for moons in the solar system’s
Read MoreSign-ups Steady as US Health Law Case Goes to Appeals Court
The government says 8.4 million Americans have signed up for coverage next year under the Obama health law, reflecting steady enrollment even as supporters of the law appeal a court
Read MoreFlying Drones Deployed Against Nests of Asian Hornets
It has no natural predator. There are no plans to control its plague. Hailing from China by way of France, the Asian hornet (vespa velutina) is now taking over Spain’s
Read More2019 Promises to Be Big Year in Space
This year marks the 50th anniversary of mankind’s first steps on the moon, so it is fitting that there are a number of exciting projects pushing us back into space.
Read MoreNASA: Icy Object Past Pluto Looks Like Reddish Snowman
A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman.
Read MoreIn Yemen, World’s Worst Cholera Outbreak Traced to Eastern Africa
Scientists have found that a strain of cholera causing an epidemic in Yemen — the worst in recorded history — came from eastern Africa and was probably borne into Yemen
Read MoreSpacecraft Opens New Year with Flyby on Solar System’s Edge
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft pulled off the most distant exploration of another world Tuesday, skimming past a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles from Earth that looks to be shaped
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence Helps Sniff Out Suspected Secret Nuclear Weapons Programs
Scientists with the complicated task of tracking secret nuclear weapons developments around the world are getting some help from a new and more-advanced artificial intelligence system. Nuclear explosions, even underground
Read MoreLow Carb? Low Fat? What Latest Dieting Studies Tell Us
Bacon and black coffee for breakfast, or oatmeal and bananas? If you’re planning to try to lose weight in 2019, you’re sure to find a fierce debate online and among
Read MoreExtreme Weather Becoming the New Normal
Extreme weather events are on the rise and climate change is playing a role in both the frequency and intensity of the bad weather the world is seeing. And as
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