2023-03-13 ‘Everything’ Wins Best Picture, Acting Oscars
Everything Everywhere All at Once won the best picture Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night in Los Angeles, California. The unusual movie about a Chinese-American immigrant family won…
2023-03-13 Heat Causes Issues during Alaska’s Famous Iditarod Race
Competitors in this year’s Iditarod dogsled race in Alaska are dealing with another struggle along the trail – unusually high temperatures. Jason Mackey leads one of the dogsled teams. He…
2023-03-13 US Finance Officials Take over Two Failed Banks
President Joe Biden told Americans Monday that the nation’s financial system is safe. Biden made the comments after the collapse of two large banks with ties to the computer technology…
2023-03-13 Experts: Medical Tourism Has Several Risks
The recent kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico brought attention to a common practice for many people in the United States: medical tourism. Medical tourism is traveling to other countries…
2023-03-12 New Studies Show NASA’s Asteroid Crash Test Was Highly Successful
Several new studies confirm the success of a test by the American space agency NASA to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid. The studies suggest the experiment was an important…
2023-03-12 Play Explores Humor, Complexity of Learning English
Anyone who has learned a foreign language knows how uncomfortable the experience can be. But learning a new language is also enjoyable, meaningful and humorous. The play “English” explores those…
2023-03-12 Farming in Ukraine Will Take Years to Recover after War
Food prices around the world increased when Russia invaded Ukraine last year partly because Ukraine is a big grain exporter. Ukrainian farmers left their fields to either fight in the…
2023-03-12 Can the Survivor Dogs of Chernobyl Teach Humans New Tricks?
More than 35 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl, Ukraine, live among empty buildings in and around the closed nuclear center. The animals continue to…
2023-03-11 Not All College Classes Lead to Degrees
When students think about college classes in the United States, they often think about the ones that will result in a degree. A science student might take a number of…
2023-03-11 Ups and Downs, Highs and Lows
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Up and down. High and low. These short words describe more than just directions. They also connect to our feelings…
2023-03-11 First Evidence of Horseback Riding Dates back 5,000 Years
Researchers have found the earliest direct evidence for horseback riding. The evidence comes from 5,000-year-old human skeletons in central Europe. The research study was published last week in the publication…