2024-03-25 New Way to Fight Brain Cancer Shows Promise
A new way to fight an extremely aggressive kind of brain tumor is showing promise in two experiments with a small number of patients. For the experiments, scientists took patients’…
2024-03-24 US Quickly Adds Storage Centers for Electricity
U.S. electricity providers are quickly adding batteries to store electricity in large amounts. The batteries are mainly ones called lithium-ion batteries. Increasingly, companies are using these batteries with solar and…
2024-03-24 How Ukrainian Schools Are Changing
Editor’s note: This story is one of the winning entries from the “Teach Us about Ukraine” writing contest sponsored by VOA Learning English and GoGlobal. Ukrainian schools have been changing…
2024-03-24 Study of Polyglots Shows How Brain Deals with Language
Most people around the world speak one or two languages. But some can speak three or more. These people are called polyglots. And they are helping researchers better understand how…
2024-03-24 NASA: Starship Test Flight Marked Progress toward Moon Landing Plans
The American space agency NASA says the recent test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket demonstrated progress in several important areas even though the rocket was lost. NASA is planning to…
2024-03-23 Historic Bridges Are Under Threat from Modern GPS
Historic covered bridges in the United States are under threat by the use of the modern technology GPS. GPS is short for Global Positioning System. The satellite system tells people…
2024-03-23 South Korean Scientists Develop ‘Beef Rice’
South Korean researchers have combined cow muscle cells with rice grains. They say the new rice is an important step towards a sustainable, less costly source of protein. The researchers…
2024-03-23 When Is Something ‘Ancient History’?
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Do you like to learn about ancient history? If you do, you could call yourself a history buff. If you…
2024-03-23 For Many Reasons, Fewer Chinese Students Attend US Schools
The U.S. State Department says there were about 20,000 fewer visas issued to Chinese students last year compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic. After about 40 years of increasing interest,…
2024-03-22 Female Presidential Candidate Brings Hope in Senegal
Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may have little chance of winning Sunday’s election, but activists say her presence alone is important. They argue that the candidacy of Anta Babacar Ngom…
2024-03-22 AI Robot Helps Find Sick Tulips in Netherlands
Theo works days, nights, and weekends in the tulip fields in the Netherlands and never complains of sore muscles. How is this possible? Theo is an artificial intelligence, or AI,…
2024-03-22 ‘The Californian’s Tale,’ by Mark Twain
Editor’s Note: This is a weekly multimedia series of American short stories for English language learners. Each story has video, audio, a quiz, and a lesson plan for teachers. Hope…