Sierra Leone Targets Human Trafficking Its estimated that anywhere from 12-million to 27-million people around the world are victims of human trafficking. Humanitarian agencies say human trafficking is a 32-billion dollar a year industry. Sierra Leon...
Electric Fish Offer Insight Into Human Central Nervous System Electric fish live mostly in fresh water in tropical rivers and are found primarily in only two parts of the world. There are two main groups, one in South America, the Gymnotiform, and th...
NASA: Humans Could Visit Asteroid in 2021 These chunks of ancient space rocks hold clues about the formation of the universe, pose threats to our planet, and present new territory for explorers. NASA's proposed asteroid mission is a logical next leap...
Students Aim for Aviation History with Human-Powered Helicopter Within reach What seemed impossible when William Staruk began his PhD studies at the University of Maryland three years ago, is now within reach. He's part of a 50-member team developing...
Human Rights Trial in Guatemala Could Set Global Precedent Chanting justice, justice, protesters in Guatemala City reacted angrily to the suspension of the trial earlier this month. The protesters, mainly indigenous people, want the 86-year-old forme...
AMERICAN MOSAIC - Ancient Declaration of Human Rights on Display in Washington, DC Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. On the show today, we hear new music from outlaw Shooter Jennings. And, we answer a question about th...
Meat Was Main Dish for Early Humans Modern-day humans eat a lot of meat. Some nutritionists say perhaps too much. But fossils in Tanzania indicate that early humans considered meat a dietary staple much earlier than first thought. Whats more, meat ma...
Obama Calls Human Trafficking 'Slavery,' Announces New Measures Calling the fight against human trafficking one of the great human rights causes of our time, Obama announced new steps to deal with a problem he called barbaric and evil with no place i...
Human Impact Muffles Mother Nature's Voice Whether it's the driving rain in a tropical storm, the scream of a mountain gorilla or the jolt of a snow mobile engine against the winter silence, Krause has recorded it all. In his new book, The Great Anim...
Japanese Robots Besting Humans at Games Tokyo University engineering professor Masatoshi Ishikawa has a good-natured response to frustrated human losers who accuse him of essentially creating a robot that cheats. [It is] not cheating. Every one milli...