People have long dreamt of a car that flies through the sky. 人们早就梦想着有一辆在空中飞行的汽车。 Japan's SkyDrive has carried out a successful, but modest test flight of such a vehicle carrying a person. It is just one of the ma...
Joe Biden, the Democratic Party presidential nominee, met with the family of Jacob Blake Thursday in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Blake is the Black man whose shooting by a white police officer set off days of protest and rioting in the midwestern city. Biden...
The U.S. federal government has told health officials in all 50 states to be ready for a coronavirus vaccine by November 1. The date is just two days before Election Day on November 3. Some public health experts have raised concerns. They worry that...
Tax officials in Africa estimate governments will collect between 10 and 30 percent less in taxes in 2020 because of the economic downturn. The coronavirus crisis has caused businesses in the hospitality, building and retail industries to suffer. Yet...
In a recent Everyday Grammar report, we explored phrasal expressions. Phrasal expressions are groups of words that take on a special meaning. This meaning is different from what the individual words suggest. Today we will explore three common, useful...
Researchers Estimate Earths Temperatures During Ice Age Scientists say they have calculated temperatures on Earth's surface during the last Ice Age. The researchers made their calculations with the help of fossilized remains of ocean plankton and mod...
American billionaire Elon Musk has demonstrated a technology designed to use a computer chip inside the head to control the brain. 美国亿万富翁埃隆马斯克演示了一项旨在利用脑内计算机芯片控制大脑的技术。 During a vide...
Researchers say antibodies, made by the human body to fight the new coronavirus, could last for at least four months. Earlier reports suggested that these special proteins disappeared quickly. Galit Alter and Dr. Robert Seder are scientists from Harv...
The World Health Organization (WHO) says COVID-19 has interfered with necessary health services in almost every country. It says low- and middle-income nations are affected the most by the crisis. In May, WHO officials sent a list of questions about...
Study: Climbers Twice as Likely to Reach Top of Mount Everest than in Past People climbing Mount Everest are two times as likely to reach the top and less likely to die on the climb than 20 years ago, a new study finds. Everest, high in the Himalayan...
Millions of US Renters Face Eviction Tiana Caldwell of Kansas City, Missouri is one of millions of Americans who face being moved out of their homes by the end of the year. 密苏里州堪萨斯城的蒂安娜考德威尔(Tiana Caldwell)是数百万面...
Learning Should Never Stop - Teaching in a Pandemic Teachers everywhere are facing the new school term with one big problem: how to teach students safely in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. 世界各地的教师都面临着新学期的一个大问题...
More South Koreans Do 'Staycations' At this time last year, Yoon Seok-min, his wife Kim Hyo-jung and their two children traveled to the Philippines, Vietnam, and Guam. They were considering a trip to the Hawaiian Islands this year. 去年的这个时候...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week in our series, we continue the story of America's forty-second president, Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton took office in January of nineteen ninety-three...
Across America, many public spaces are taking on an unlikely new responsibility this fall. They are welcoming children for distance learning while their parents go to work. Among such places are martial arts centers, dance schools, community centers...
