Rain-fed wildflowers have been sprouting from California’s desert sands after lying dormant for years — producing a spectacular display that has drawn record crowds and traffic jams to tiny towns
Read MoreResearchers in a pilot clinical trial have made it possible for a paralyzed man to move his arm. As Bronwyn Benito reports, it is a critical step toward restoring mobility
Read MoreWhile the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago is best known for its contributions to nuclear energy development, it is also an incubator for technological innovation
Read MoreDuring World War II, the Warsaw Zoo in Poland’s capital became a hideout for Jews escaping Nazi persecution. Niki Caro’s film, The Zookeeper’s Wife, chronicles this true story, highlighting the
Read MoreCould potatoes one day support human life on Mars? Scientists in Peru have used a simulator that mimics the harsh conditions on the Red Planet to successfully grow a small
Read MoreIn a custom-built arena in Kabul, crowds cheered as young Afghan men punched, kicked and wrestled in the country’s first professional mixed martial arts league, a welcome distraction to the
Read MoreOn Tuesday, it will be “1984” again in movie theaters across the country. About 190 art-house theaters have banded together to show the 1984 big-screen adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian
Read MoreVice President Mike Pence took the rare step of breaking a tie in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, casting the deciding vote to roll back protections for reproductive health funds.
Read MoreSpaceX launched its first recycled rocket Thursday, the biggest leap yet in its bid to drive down costs and speed up flights. The Falcon 9 blasted off from Florida’s
Read MoreDuring their first-ever formal meeting, culture ministers representing Group of Seven industrialized nations on Thursday decried the looting and trafficking of cultural treasures by terror groups while experts acknowledged that
Read MoreЛише третина опитаних в Україні, занедужавши, звертається до лікаря – такі результати опитування «Індекс здоров’я. Україна 2016» отримали в ході дослідження благодійного фонду «Пацієнти України» за підтримки USAID. Близько 50%
Read MoreWorkplaces have become less civil spaces than they once were. People don’t say please and thank you. Employees send e-mails and texts during meetings, ignoring the speaker and tuning out
Read MorePushing yourself is harder if you are a woman older than 50. Just ask Meschelle Sevier. “I would rather sit on the couch at home and watch re-runs,” Sevier says.
Read MoreWhy does physical activity become harder for some older women? Researchers are studying that very question to help women stay active and healthy as they age. VOA’s Carol Pearson has
Read MorePart of music icon Bob Dylan’s once-secret 6,000-piece archive, including thousands of hours of studio sessions, film reels and caches of unpublished lyrics, has opened in Oklahoma. More than 1,000
Read MoreUniversal Pictures is going back to its roots — monsters. The studio Wednesday debuted footage from its upcoming adventure film The Mummy, which opens a monster universe drawing on Universal’s vault
Read MoreA photograph of Harriet Tubman, believed to be the earliest-known image of the anti-slavery crusader and showing her as younger than she is normally depicted, will go up for auction
Read MoreУ Державній службі надзвичайних ситуацій повідомляють, що причиною пожежі у Дарницькому районі Києва є займання трави. «Люди палять траву. Почалося з трави, далі перекинулося на очерет і дерева. Зараз ніч,
Read MoreПродавець магазину фурнітури в Дніпрі, яку вдова загиблого бійця АТО Анна Счасна-Гарус звинувачує у своєму побитті через мовний конфлікт, заявляє про побутовий характер сварки. Про це Радіо Свобода 29 березня
Read MoreНа Дніпропетровщині оголосили збір коштів для перевезення рідкісної половецької баби, знайденої у Павлоградському районі, до Дніпропетровського національного історичного музею. Як повідомляють волонтери, від села, де пам’ятка зараз просто лежить в
Read MoreChina said Wednesday it is committed to honoring its pledges under the Paris climate change agreement, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order that would
Read MoreІталія через проведення саміту країн «Групи семи» на острові Сицилія відновить контроль на кордоні з сусідніми країнами Шенгенської зони, повідомляє Департамент консульської служби Міністерства закордонних справ України. «Італія відновить з
Read MoreThe House voted Tuesday to block online privacy regulations issued during the final months of the Obama administration, a first step toward allowing internet providers such as Comcast, AT&T and
Read MoreDo you ever shudder when you hear certain sounds, such as rustling of some type of plastic bags or a fork scraping on the bottom of a porcelain plate? Or
Read MoreIvanka Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday exhorted young girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math, saying those fields will provide the jobs and innovation
Read MorePresident Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Tuesday that would effectively dismantle Obama-era environmental regulations, rekindling the highly charged partisan debate about how human activity affects the earth’s climate,
Read MoreTo build a sandcastle here on Earth, the sand needs to be wet so it can stick together. Not so on Saturn’s strange and largest moon Titan, according to a
Read MoreTwitter Inc, trying to boost its sagging advertising revenue, will allow brands to buy commercials on its video streams for Periscope, signaling a major push to make money off the
Read MoreLeonardo da Vinci is, simply put, one of the greatest artists of all time. The world still marvels at his genius and some of his most famous works, such as
Read More“Migration Blues”, a new album from veteran bluesman Eric Bibb, uses the sounds of the American South to tell the tale of everyone from 1920s farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl
Read MoreНа Закарпатті у Чопі скульптуру Володимира Леніна на аукціоні продали за понад 250 тисяч гривень. Як повідомляє прес-служба Чопської міськради, скульптуру передали у право користування, а бюджет міста Чоп поповнився
Read MoreНаціональна спілка кінематографістів України визначила лауреата Національної кінопремії у номінації «За внесок в українське кіно». Як повідомляє прес-служба спілки, 20 квітня під час урочистої церемонії вручення почесну статуетку «Золота Дзиґа»
Read MoreRussia’s nationalist propaganda machine kicked into high gear after the 2014 annexation of Crimea sparked the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War. State media quickly fell behind the
Read MoreThe globally popular statue of a young girl will keep staring down Wall Street’s famed “Charging Bull” through February 2018 instead of being removed this coming Sunday, the mayor said.
Read MoreWith their gravity-defying trampoline flips, graceful acrobatics, juggling and tightrope walking, the children in San Francisco’s circus school are bringing a touch of Cirque du Soleil magic to this bohemian
Read MoreSpinach is known as a super food for its nutritional value, but a new experiment reveals another power of the green leaf. Researchers say they’ve grown beating human heart cells
Read MoreThe names Matthew and Otto have been retired for Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes following the deadly 2016 season. According to a statement Monday from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Read MoreWhite House officials say President Donald Trump will sign executive orders Tuesday that would effectively dismantle Obama era environmental regulations, rekindling the highly-charged partisan debate about how human activity affects
Read MoreAs East Africa struggles through a drought, scientists say climate change may be making the situation worse as a warming planet may be altering the weather patterns that bring rain
Read MoreA massive renewable energy project could change the seascape of the Welsh city of Swansea in coming years. The plan is to encase the city’s lagoon in a horshoe shaped
Read MoreПам’ятний знак на честь бійців Національної гвардії України, які загинули, виборюючи свободу України, відкрито у Херсоні біля місця розташування військової частини Нацгвардії № 3056. Відкриття пам’ятного знака відбулося під час
Read MoreThere are an estimated 1.1 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, 500,000 of them are children. For many of them, getting enough food and water are their biggest challenges. Children who
Read MoreThese days, the only words most people see are typed. Many young people never learn cursive handwriting, but it is making a comeback. Thousands of school students around the country
Read MoreIt was lights out in about 170 countries on Saturday as millions of people and thousands of cities took part in Earth Hour, a global effort to draw attention to
Read More«Тільки в Мінську 25 березня, за різними даними, було затримано близько 1000 осіб. Правоохоронні органи Білорусі проводять свавільні затримання» …
Read MoreУ суботу, 25 березня, в Дніпрі на площі Героїв Майдану в центрі міста патрульні поліцейські разом з громадськістю влаштували флешмоб «Тризуб – це Україна». За даними організаторів, в акції взяли
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