Kevin Enochs

A Glimpse Inside the VR Hospital of the Future

The future is full of virtual reality games, and applications. But one place where its utility is clearly going to have a positive impact is in the world of medicine. In London, the Virtual Reality Show is displaying some of the technologies that will change the way medicine, surgery, and even psychotherapy are practiced in the future. VOA's Kevin Enochs reports

Dental Students Play Doctor in Virtual Reality

There's a big difference between practicing dentistry, and finding a way to practice being a dentist. But thanks to the world of virtual reality, dentists-in-training have a new way to practice their craft through the relatively new technology of mixed reality (MR), where the virtual world meets the real world. VOA's Kevin Enochs reports.

Planet Hunters Find Another 'Earthy' Planet in Our Galactic Neighborhood

Researchers discover a new candidate for best place to look for life beyond earth

Researchers Close to Injection-free Vaccine

Getting a vaccine without the shot has always been one of the greatest hopes of medicine. For people in the developed world it means getting a vaccine can be as simple as taking an aspirin. For people in the developing world, or in isolated rural areas, it means they can get vaccines without a doctor or nurse. VOA's Kevin Enochs reports.

Trump Set to Overturn Online Privacy Protections, Stirring Debate

U.S. privacy regulations are generally considered weaker than those in the European Union

Main Points in Trump Climate Policy Executive Order

Today's executive order lays out a White House strategy to demolish regulations that 'impede' energy production; but environmental groups vow to challenge rollback in environmental protections

Tidal Energy Taking Hold In England

Plan to encase Swansea Bay's lagoon in horseshoe-shaped causeway will allow it to serve as giant tidal generator; four-year project is massive, but if it is approved, it would create long-term reliable source of clean energy

Genetically Modified Larvae Could Replace Lab Animals

Some pharmaceutical companies are finding that to test effectiveness, and safety of their products, they need look no farther than at wriggling petri dish

Study Ties Premature Death to Air Pollution

Air pollution seems to have a larger effect on women and older people than on men or younger people

Quality Physical Therapy Just a Mouse Click Away

Victims of stroke often face years of grueling, physical therapy, if they can even find a qualified therapist. Now a Portuguese inventor has created a computer program that delivers high quality, monitored therapy, and it’s just a mouse click away. Faith Lapidus narrates this report from Kevin Enochs.

Over Half The World's Primates Headed Towards Extinction

A researchers suggests that "60 percent of primate species are now threatened with extinction and about 75 percent have declining populations." The threat has primatologists around the world sounding the alarm about the future of our closest evolutionary cousins. VOA's Kevin Enochs reports.

Alleged CIA Hacking Techniques Lay Out Online Vulnerability 

Lightweight Vest Offers Vital Protection For Space Colonists

The Earth's atmosphere, and magnetic fields protect us from the damaging, and potentially deadly effects of gamma rays. But in space, and in some earthly disaster scenarios like a nuclear meltdown, it takes several feet of concrete or lead to keep us safe. But a new vest of flexible light material might solve the gamma ray problem as we try to figure out ways to set up shop on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. VOA's Kevin Enochs reports.

Turning Garbage Into Gas

It's hard to teach young women about getting ahead through technology when they don't even have enough light to study. That was the problem facing The Green Girls Project in Cameroon. So project leaders took a break from their lessons and focused on solving that problem. The result is enlightening. VOA's Kevin Enochs reports.

Norwegian Architects Consider Wood As The Future Of Building

It's real life back to the future. Architects are taking a new look at wood as they search for renewable, strong building materials with a small carbon footprint. And based on some of the towering structures rising around the world, the sky's the limit. VOA's Kevin Enochs reports.

New Administration, New Era For Clean Air Act

Astronomers Discover New Earths in our Celestial Neighborhood

An international team of astronomers have discovered seven earth-like planets orbiting in a nearby star system

Green Fields And a Green Stadium

The environmental impact of building a modern sports stadium can be immense. Occupying a large plot of land, not to mention the impact of the massive amounts of concrete and steel, can create a giant carbon footprint. But a football club in England is building their new stadium the old fashioned, but highly sustainable way, with wood. VOA's Kevin Enochs reports.

Making Ice Storms in a Lab

Water can be dangerous stuff for people when it freezes and falls from the sky, covering the ground with snow or ice. It is perhaps even more dangerous and can cause significant damage when it falls as rain and then freezes on the ground. And while most of us are smart enough to come in out of the cold, trees aren't so lucky, and scientists are trying to discover how they react when they're suddenly covered with ice. VOA's Kevin Enochs reports.

'Unprecedented' Jet Stream Pushing Warm Air Into Arctic

Scientists are watching, and trying to figure out the reasons behind giant pulses of warm air being pushed into the Arctic Ocean