2025-01-25 Get Ready for Spring Planting in Winter
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. In many parts of the world, winter brings cold temperatures and, in some places, snowfall. For people who like…
2025-01-25 Sometimes We ‘Spread Ourself Too Thin’
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Today we talk about our busy lives. Many people have family and work responsibilities. We might have religious or community…
2025-01-24 Researchers Uncover a Bathhouse Complex in Ancient Pompeii
Archeological research has uncovered another treasure of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii: a large private bathhouse. The explosion of Mount Vesuvius in 70 AD buried Pompeii in thick ash,…
2025-01-24 ‘The Blue Hotel,’ by Stephen Crane, Part Four
We present the fourth of four parts of the short story “The Blue Hotel,” by Stephen Crane. The story was originally adapted by the U.S. Department of State. The audio…
2025-01-24 Minimal Pairs for Pronunciation
This week on Ask a Teacher we answer a question from Doraemon in Japan. Here is Doraemon’s question: Hi VOA, For me, as an English learner, words like clash, crash,…
2025-01-23 US Solar Farms Put Hungry Sheep to Work
A group of sheep on farmland in the American state of Texas work together to complete a job: eating the grass growing beneath hundreds of solar panels. Sheep have become…
2025-01-23 Academic Writing: Common Patterns, Part One
The new school year is beginning in communities across the United States. Many students are busy at work in their new classes. Some are already thinking about all the homework…
2025-01-22 Red Coloring Linked to Cancer Risk Banned in US Foods
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned a chemical widely used to color some food products red. The ban of the coloring chemical, called dye, came nearly 35…
2025-01-22 Researchers: Female Family Ties Important to Social Networks
A recent study suggests that female family ties were central to social networks in ancient Celtic society before the Roman invasion. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in…
2025-01-22 Meta Ends Third-party Fact-Checking, Adds ‘Community Notes’ System
Facebook parent company Meta recently announced changes to the way it tries to identify misinformation and harmful material published on its social media services. Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg explained in…
2025-01-21 Nepal Supreme Court Bans Large Business Development in Protected Areas
Nepal’s Supreme Court has struck down disputed laws that permit waterpower centers, visitor housing such as hotels, and other business development in protected natural areas. Environmental defenders say the January…
2025-01-21 Musk: Third Person Receives Computer-Brain Connection from Neuralink
Businessman Elon Musk said a third person has had a special electronic device directly connected to their brain. The unidentified person received an implant from Musk’s company Neuralink, which makes…
2025-01-21 Make a Memory Palace to Improve Your English
Sherlock Holmes is an imaginary private detective created by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 1880s. Doyle’s stories about the detective have been turned into movies and television…