Fifty Years Later, Moon Landing Still Making Money Fifty years after American men landed on the moon, there is still money to be made from the event. Hundreds of millions of people watched on television on July 20, 1969, when American astronaut Neil...
Hello and welcome to another episode of Words and Their Stories. On this show we explain common expressions in American English where they come from and how to use them. Today we talk about being overcome with emotion, both good and bad. We have a so...
Common Phrasal Verbs with Go In the early 1970s, Motown Records released the Marvin Gaye song Whats Going On. The song asks for a peaceful solution to social problems. Whats Going On is very famous in the United States. It appears in fourth place on...
Books and Barbers: How a Haircut Is Helping Students Read Summer time in the U.S. usually means slower days, and no school. Yes its summer, my time of year Teachers know, however, that summer vacation means students will likely fall behind, and forge...
Red Cross Program Helps Kenyans Fight Drug Addiction In the kitchen of the drug rehabilitation center in Lamu, Kenya, Musa Mohamed is stirring a pan full of chicken and herbs. Musa is a 43-year-old drug user. He is one of 18 addicts at the center whi...
One Thing You Can Do Right Now to Help Your Heart From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. 这里是美国之音学习英语频道，来自健康和生活方式栏目的报道。 Many diseases and medical conditions are caused...
Scientists Say Cigar-Shaped Object Not Alien Spaceship Scientists report that the first object from another star system found speeding through our solar system in 2017 was not an alien spaceship. 科学家报告称，2017年发现的首个来自其他星...
Methane Mystery on Mars: Could It Mean Life? The United States space agency, NASA, says its Mars exploration vehicle recently recorded a high level of methane gas on the planet.The discovery is exciting because the presence of methane gas could suppo...
Google to Launch Balloon Internet System in Rural Kenya A Google-backed project to bring internet connectivity to rural areas around the world is set to launch its first service in Kenya. The project is led by Loon, which is owned by Googles parent c...
Greeces Acropolis Museum has opened an excavation area under its modern-day building. For the first time, visitors will be able to walk through an ancient Athenian neighborhood that survived from Classical to Byzantine times. The museums base rests o...
New Technology Helps Rescuers Find Missing People Yesenia DAlessandro added a global positioning system, or GPS, recording program to her mobile phone before entering a hard-to-reach Hawaiian forest. She was joining more than 100 volunteers looking f...
UN, European Agencies Launch Plan to Clean Up Space European and United Nations agencies are developing a plan for worldwide action on dealing with waste in outer space, commonly called space junk. The agencies say space junk orbiting the earth must...
Hello and welcome to another episode of Words and Their Stories. On this show we explain common expressions in American English where they come from and how to use them. Today we talk about being overcome with emotion, both good and bad. We have a so...
Imagine that you have just arrived at a hotel after a tiring 7-hour overnight flight. At the front desk, the staff person welcomes you, gives you a warm smile, confirms your reservation quickly and hands you your room key. They tell you the complimen...
