2022-05-08 NASA Develops ‘Lunar Backpack’ to Support Future Moon Exploration
The American space agency NASA has developed a wearable device to guide future explorers on the moon. The system is designed to map terrain and guide astronauts through unknown territory…
2022-05-08 Young Koreans Worry about Return of After-work Gatherings
South Korea’s recent decision to ease many of its COVID-19 restrictions has some office workers feeling more concerned than happy. That is because the end of social distancing means a…
2022-05-08 Technology Used to Report Environmental Crime in Brazil
Native groups in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest area are increasingly using the internet to share evidence of environmental crimes. These groups are using phones, video cameras and social media to share…
2022-05-08 Traveling Doctor Provides Abortion Services in US States
Shelly Tien is a women’s health doctor based in Florida. She used to take care of women who had high-risk pregnancies. But now, because it is hard to get safe…
2022-05-08 California Launches Effort to Examine How to Regulate Cryptocurrency
California has become the first American state to launch an official effort to examine how to regulate digital monies. The effort began when Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed an executive…
2022-05-07 Professors: Students Unprepared for Math after Pandemic
Andrea Hernandez is a student at the University of Texas. As a high school student in Dallas, she studied math a lot and was proud of her skill in the…
2022-05-07 Let’s Get to the ‘Root of the Problem’
And now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program we explore words and expressions in the English language. Today we talk about an important part of…
2022-05-07 Use of Medication to End Pregnancies Is Rising
A group that supports abortion rights says that drugs are used to carry out more than half of the abortions in America rather than operations. The Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit…
2022-05-07 Comfortable Changes to Office Wear
As Americans slowly return to the office, they are rethinking their clothing choices at work. After two years of working from home in exercise clothes, many people now want to…
2022-05-07 Cubans Grow Corals, Restore Reef with Limited Support
A small group of Cuban dive instructors have started a project to grow corals and replant them. The divers hope to restore part of Cuba’s barrier reef. And they are…
2022-05-06 Learning New Words: Parts of Speech and Suffixes, Part 2
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we will continue to answer Erol’s question about learning new words by using suffixes to create adjectives and adverbs. Question: Hello, My name…
2022-05-06 ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,’ by Edgar Allan Poe, Part One
We present the first of three parts of the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” by Edgar Allan Poe. The story was originally adapted and recorded by…