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10 African Penguin Chicks Hatch at San Francisco Museum

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SAN FRANCISCO — A bounty of 10 African penguin chicks has hatched in just over a year at a San Francisco science museum as part of an effort to conserve the endangered bird. The penguins began hatching in November 2022, ending a four-year period without any…

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Canada Postpones Plan to Allow Euthanasia for Mentally Ill

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vancouver, british columbia — The Canadian government is delaying access to medically assisted death for people with mental illness. Those suffering from mental illness were supposed to be able to access Medical Assistance in Dying — also known as MAID — starting March 17. The recent…

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Media Watchdog Finds ChatGPT Spreads More Disinformation in Chinese

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A test of ChatGPT's capabilities to create false information finds the chatbot spreads more disinformation in Chinese, says media watchdog NewsGuard. VOA's Robin Guess has more. VOA footage by Michael Eckels, Roy Kim. ...

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NASA, SpaceX Join Forces to Study Earth’s Environment

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Two titans of space travel team up to study our planet's health. Plus, a Russian cosmonaut breaks the record for the most time in space, and sky gazers in North America will get a treat in coming months. VOA's Arash Arabasadi brings us The Week…

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AI Deepfakes Pose Threat to Elections Worldwide

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Four billion people worldwide have voted or are scheduled to do so in national elections through 2024. While the candidates and issues differ in each country, one common concern is the use of generative artificial intelligence in disinformation campaigns. VOA’s Valdya Baraputri has the story.…

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Brazil Launches Mass Vaccination Campaign Against Dengue Fever

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Brazil is set to launch a public mass vaccination campaign against dengue fever, amid a surge of cases nationwide. According to the country's Health Ministry, Brazil has seen nearly five times more cases in the first five weeks of this year than in the same…

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As Warming Stokes Storms, Some Want Bigger Hurricane Scale: Category 6?

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Oversight Board Urges Meta to Rethink Policy on Manipulated Media

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NEW YORK — An oversight board is criticizing Facebook owner Meta's policies regarding manipulated media as "incoherent" and insufficient to address the flood of online disinformation that already has begun to target elections across the globe this year. The quasi-independent board on Monday said its review…

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Study Finds Ocean Heatwaves Could Affect Global Food Supplies

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SYDNEY — A new study finds that marine heatwaves are changing the base of the marine food chain, disrupting ecosystems and potentially global food supplies. Researchers in the investigation led by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, say their work has global implications. The study monitored the…

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Deepfake Scam Video Cost Company $26 Million, Hong Kong Police Says

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Hong Kong — Scammers tricked a multinational firm out of some $26 million by impersonating senior executives using deepfake technology, Hong Kong police said Sunday, in one of the first cases of its kind in the city. Law enforcement agencies are scrambling to keep up with…

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Russian Cosmonaut Sets Record for Total Time in Space

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Mosocw — Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko on Sunday set a world record for total time spent in space, surpassing his compatriot Gennady Padalka who logged more than 878 days in orbit, Russia's space corporation said. At 0830 GMT Kononenko broke the record, Roscosmos said. Kononenko is…

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Crane Who Fell for Keeper Dies at 42

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WASHINGTON — One of the great interspecies love stories of our time has come to an end. Walnut, a white-naped crane and internet celebrity, has died at age 42. She is survived by eight chicks, the loving staff at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology…

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Who Freed Flaco? Owl’s Escape From New York Zoo Remains a Mystery

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new york — This New York love story begins with a criminal act of sabotage. Under cover of darkness a year ago Friday, someone breached a waist-high fence and slipped into the Central Park Zoo. Once inside, they cut a hole through a steel mesh cage,…

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 Iran’s Civil Society Groups Say Suicide Rates at Crisis Levels Among Students, Doctors

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Washington — Iranian civil society organizations and professionals say suicide rates have reached crisis levels among school students and recent medical school graduates in the past month, with no sign of solutions from the government. Iranian state news agency IRNA acknowledged the worsening of the Islamic…

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Rohingya Refugees File Petition Against Facebook in Indian Court

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China Launches Rocket as Commercial Missions Pick Up Pace

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BEIJING — A small but powerful Chinese rocket capable of carrying payloads at competitive costs delivered nine satellites into orbit Saturday, Chinese state media reported, in what is gearing up to be another busy year for Chinese commercial launches. The Jielong-3, or Smart Dragon-3, blasted off…

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X Chromosome Linked to Autoimmune Diseases

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WASHINGTON — Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, when an out-of-whack immune system attacks their own bodies — and new research may finally explain why. It's all about how the body handles females' extra X chromosome, Stanford University researchers reported Thursday…

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US Won’t Restore Protections for Wolves in Rockies

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Residents Japanese Nuclear Plant Damaged in Quake Examined

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TOKYO — A group of residents of towns near Japanese nuclear plants submitted a petition on Friday asking regulators to halt safety screening for the restart of idled reactors until damage to a plant that partially lost external power and spilled radioactive water during a recent…

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Beheading Video Gone from YouTube, But Questions Remain

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NEW YORK — A graphic video from a Pennsylvania man accused of beheading his father that circulated for hours on YouTube has put a spotlight yet again on gaps in social media companies' ability to prevent horrific postings from spreading across the web. Police said Wednesday…

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Skyscraper-Sized Asteroid to Fly by Earth

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US Hurricane Center’s Forecasts to Expand to Include Inland Areas

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ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — The "cone of uncertainty" produced by the National Hurricane Center to forecast the location and ferocity of a tropical storm is getting an update this year to include predictions for inland areas, where wind and flooding are sometimes more treacherous than damage…

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Scientists Try to Assess Wars’ Impact on Environment, Climate Change

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Countries waging wars are more focused on winning battles than mitigating their environmental impact. But researchers — who say the environmental impact of active conflicts is substantial — are trying to measure wars' effects. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias reports. Carla Babb contributed. ...

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NASA’s Tiny Helicopter on Mars Makes Final Flight

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A great space success story comes to an end. And SpaceX is at it again with a busy week of launches. VOA's Arash Arabasadi brings us The Week in Space. ...

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Lunar Night Puts Japan’s Lander Back to Sleep

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TOKYO — After a brief awakening, Japan's Moon lander is out of action again but will resume its mission if it survives the two-week lunar night, the space agency said Thursday. The unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) touched down last month at a wonky…

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Staggering Rise in New Cancer Cases Projected in 2050

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Geneva — New cancer cases are projected to rise by 77% to more than 35 million in 2050 from an estimated 20 million new cases and 9.7 million deaths in 2022, according to new data released Thursday by the World Health Organization’s cancer agency, the International…

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Spanish Region Cuts Water Use Amid Record Drought

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History of AI

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From counting machines to neural networks, the development of artificial intelligence has paralleled emerging brain science. Writer, Matt Dibble; graphic designer, Kateryna Stepchenko; motion designer, Valeryia Rusak; narrator, Hayde Fitzpatrick. ...