Fruit Detectives Search For Rare Kinds of Apples An apple tree stands alone near the top of a hill. It produces the Arkansas Beauty, a fruit long believed to have disappeared from existence. Three years ago, plant experts E.J. Brandt and David Bensco...
Life Expectancy Declines in the United States Life expectancy rates in the United States have been increasing for most of the past 60 years. But a new study has confirmed changes. 过去60年大部分时间，美国人均预期寿命一直在不断增长...
Measles Blamed for More than 50 Deaths in Samoa The government of Samoa announced on Monday that five more children had died within the past day from measles. That raises the number of measles deaths on the Pacific island nation to 53 since late Octo...
Tanzanian Reporter Fights for Free Press After Arrests, Threats Maxence Melo of Tanzania did not set out to be a journalist. In 2006, he launched a website called Jamii Forums to give young people a place to speak openly and to fight corruption. 坦桑...
今天我们要学的词是 censure. censure 的意思是谴责，用于正式和公开的场合。 House Democrats voted last month to set aside a Republican motion to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for conduct that mislea...
The International Business Machines Corporation, known as IBM, says it is making technology for precision weather predictions available to everyone. 国际商业机器公司（简称IBM）称该公司正在把精准天气预报的科技带给每个人。...
Scientists Get First-Ever Measure of Blue Whale Heart Rate For the first time ever, scientists have recorded the heart rate of the world's largest creature: the blue whale. To get this reading, they attached an electrocardiogram device to the body of...
Korean Startups Expand to Vietnam South Korean startup companies are planning to use their country's similarities with Vietnam to expand their businesses. 韩国初创企业正计划利用该国与越南的相似之处来拓展业务。 The people of...
Gaza Man Creates Art by Balancing Objects Whenever Mohammed al-Shenbari sees a new object, he quickly tries to find its balancing point. In other words, he tries make it stand in a way that appears to defy gravity. The 24-year-old Palestinian artist...
Endangered Butterfly Lives on Military Base As a large explosion is heard in the distance, a St. Francis Satyr butterfly flies around, ready to lay as many as 100 eggs. At one point, this brown butterfly could be found in only one place: a military b...
今天我们要学的词是 fabricate。 fabricate 的意思是编造、捏造。U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley has formally requested updates from the Department of Justice on four criminal referrals submitted last year of individuals who fabricated alleg...
Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. 这里是美国之音慢速英语词汇掌故节目。 Each week, we explore the English language. We take a close look at words and expressions. We not only define the terms, we also giv...
Solar Energy Offers Lifeline in Power-Starved Yemen Yemen's civil war has resulted in widespread power outages across the country. 也门内战导致全国大范围断电。 The United Nations estimates that about 90 percent of the country's populati...
Is Music Similar Across Cultures? Love songs, dance tunes, bed time songs for children all of these kinds of music share patterns across cultures, a new study finds. Researchers who set up the study say this suggests a commonality in the way human mi...
Warm Waters Prevent Sea Ice Formation in US Arctic Climate change has brought a difficult new reality for the U.S. Arctic. Open water -- rather than sea ice has become normal for the Chukchi Sea in the month of November. Researchers are studying how...
