2022-12-12 Beijing Music School Helps Autistic Students
Zu Wenbao is a 23-year-old Chinese villager with autism. He grew up in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Autism is a developmental disability that makes it hard for some people…
2022-12-12 Kenya’s Maasai Turn from Lion-killing to Olympics
The Maasai people are easily the most identifiable in Kenya with their very colorful clothing. They raise animals and live near some of Kenya’s most visited wildlife parks. Their hunting…
2022-12-12 What Is Rewilding?
Animal and plant species are disappearing at frightening levels. The problem has led to efforts to “rewild” places where such life existed before human development, pollution and climate change forced…
2022-12-12 A Way to Speed Up Composting Process
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. The key to healthy plants is healthy soil. And the best way to improve soil is by using compost.…
2022-12-11 Goose-necked Dinosaur Was Built Like a Diving Bird
The expansive dinosaur group that includes big hunters like the T. rex has a strange new member. Its bones were found in Mongolia. Scientists named the new dinosaur Natovenator polydontus.…
2022-12-11 Model Villages Are a Holiday Tradition
Little model villages have long been part of many American families’ holiday decorating traditions. The life-like model villages have small houses, shops, people and snowy trees. This season, American designers…
2022-12-11 Small Nevada Toad Listed as Endangered Due to Power Project
A power center that will create electricity by pumping hot water from the earth sounds like a good idea. The company that hopes to build the power center in a…
2022-12-11 NASA Pleased with Orion Test Flight as Spacecraft Heads Back to Earth
The American space agency NASA says its Orion spacecraft has performed beyond expectations during its test mission to fly around the moon. Orion is set to return to Earth on…
2022-12-10 Big Tech, Community Colleges Partnering in Education
Neethi Anand Gangidi came from India to the United States to study chemical engineering. But when the Covid-19 pandemic created difficulties for her doctoral studies, she changed direction by studying…
2022-12-10 ‘Set in Stone’
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore words and expressions in the English language. We give examples and notes on usage. Some…
2022-12-10 Scientists Study Oldest-known DNA
Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to study what life was like 2 million years ago in Greenland. Today, northern Greenland is an empty, cold area. But…
2022-12-10 Lebanon’s New Poor Face Long-Term Economic Insecurity
Lebanon is a former middle-income country, one that is neither rich nor poor. But its financial system collapsed in 2019. The collapse led to a great drop in the value…