Maple and oak trees with branches full of seeds at the end of summer got American plant expert Lee Reich thinking about how trees grow. He remembers how, a few years ago, he decided to drop an apple seed into some soil he had placed in a small contai...
Chinese officials urged people to avoid traveling home for the Lunar New Year observance to prevent spreading the coronavirus in rural areas. 中国官员督促人们避免回乡过年，以防止新冠病毒在农村地区传播。 China reported it...
When you consider his background, Joe Biden is not unique among past presidents. But perhaps that is why he won the election in November. It was his third try. Biden first ran for president in 1988, looking to become the Democratic party's nominee at...
The ice cream company Ben Jerry's is entering the pet food business for the first time with frozen treats for dogs. The treats, called Doggie Desserts, will be available for sale at U.S. food and pet stores later this month. The treats will be sold i...
A new study shows a link between bad technology and higher stress levels of employees. Researchers from American computer company Dell Technologies led the study. Dell partnered with neuroscience company EMOTIV on the study. The research involved exp...
Hundreds of thousands of people normally attend a new American president's inauguration. But the first day of Joe Biden's presidency will be very different. 通常会有数十万人参加新任美国总统的就职典礼。但是乔拜登总统上任第...
There is a famous picture of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. seated for a ride on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The year was 1956 and King and other activists had led a boycott of that city's bus system. The movement won an...
Asian Farmers Battle New Bird Flu Outbreak Chicken farmers in several Asian nations are battling severe bird flu outbreaks. The largest number of influenza cases is in Japan and South Korea. In those countries, 20 million chickens have been destroyed...
Farmers were digging among fruit trees on a farm on Mexico's coast when they found a big surprise: a stone statue almost two meters tall. The female statue may represent an influential woman rather than a goddess, or some mix of the two, experts said...
Last August, The University of Southern California, known as USC, became involved in a dispute over language that appeared widely in U.S. and Chinese news stories. It started with a white communications professor talking about small words or sounds t...
New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood is filled with restaurants and other businesses that are now closed. Nearby, Broadway theaters are also dark because of COVID-19 suspensions. The coronavirus crisis caused great economic difficulties for al...
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On this program we take a closer look at common words and expressions in the English language. Today we will talk about how to describe something that shows promise of being great, but then...
Norway Moves Quickly to Start Undersea Mining Norway aims to discover new resources beneath the sea, but its push into mining has raised environmental concerns. Norway could license companies for deep-sea mining as early as 2023, its oil and energy m...
A cat that many believed was killed along with its owner in a huge mudslide has been found three years later. A mudslide is a large mass of wet earth that suddenly and quickly moves down the side of a mountain. The natural disaster happened in Januar...
Award-Winning Librarians Help During Pandemic Anyone who loves to read loves a library. The sight of thousands of books organized on shelves; the smell of old books mixed with new ones; the sound of a librarian silencing a noisy visitor are all part...
