Nokia says it has been chosen by the American space agency NASA to build the first mobile phone network on the moon. 诺基亚公司表示，它已被美国宇航局选中在月球上建造首个手机网络。 The Finnish technology company recently...
Researchers in Britain are preparing to infect healthy young volunteers with the virus that causes COVID-19. The aim is to speed up development of a vaccine that could help end the worldwide pandemic. This kind of research is known as a human challen...
About three million people in the United States, including a presidential candidate, find they sometimes stutter. It is a condition that causes people to repeat the beginning sound of words, or whole words while speaking. At times, they even have tro...
Jack-o'-Lantern: Why Is It Named 'Jack'? And now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. One of the most well-known signs of Halloween is the jack-o'-lantern. You can find jack-o'-lanterns on the front steps of countless American homes on...
In the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, more than 300,000 homes have no official address. This is because across many parts of the island, street names or numbers do not exist. This has long been a problem in the city of Caguas, near Puerto Rico's capi...
Rob Mullen is walking the whole length of the northeastern state of Vermont and painting what he sees along the way. So far, Mullen has walked over 300 kilometers on the Long Trail, what Vermont calls America's oldest long-distance path. Recently, he...
'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,' by Mark Twain Editor's note: This story includes some of the informal dialect that Mark Twain liked to include in his writing. We have provided explanations of some of the expressions after the story...
The European Union (EU) wants the World Health Organization (WHO) to become more open about how countries report health crises. That information comes from a proposal on reforming the WHO. 欧盟希望世卫组织在各国如何报告健康危机方面...
People who are sick with the coronavirus fill cold basements with the healthy to hide from artillery fire. The local health minister who has the virus keeps working. He has a higher than normal body temperature and is also sick with pneumonia. Doctor...
Today we answer a question from Ahmad in Iraq. He writes: Question: Why do we have some silent letters in English? Like these words: write, know, half, hide. So, tell me, why should we write them, although we don't pronounce them? Thank you Ahmad, Ir...
U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday that Iran and Russia have both tried to interfere with the 2020 presidential election. 美国国家情报总监约翰拉特克利夫周三表示，伊朗和俄罗斯都试图干预...
While the United States deals with COVID-19, another public health concern is being largely ignored: the crisis of opioid addiction. Opioid addiction has been linked to the deaths of more than 470,000 Americans over the past 20 years. That may be abo...
International air traffic is down 92 percent this year, with many travelers worried about getting COVID-19. There are also government travel bans and quarantine rules that make planning difficult. What will it take to get people flying again? Airline...
Thailand's government has canceled an emergency order that failed to end continuing pro-democracy demonstrations. The state of emergency was declared last week. It banned public gatherings of more than four people. It also permitted censorship of the...
A friend of mine had a very small wedding last weekend. Only close family attended in person. Everyone else, myself included, watched the ceremony in real time on YouTube. My friend, the bride, looked very, very pretty. She and her new husband were v...
