2024-10-07 Severe Obesity Increases in US
Body weight continues to be a big public health issue in the United States. New government research suggests that the condition of having far too much fat stored in the…
2024-10-06 Study: Replanting Same Trees Cannot Replace Burned Forests
Camille Stevens-Rumann recently sat on the ground and measured small trees to see how much they had grown in seven months. She found they had grown five to 10 centimeters.…
2024-10-06 NASA Follows Asteroid Moving Closer to Earth from Sun’s Orbit
Scientists have discovered a small asteroid that recently moved closer to Earth’s orbit. The object was first observed August 7 by two astronomers from Spain’s Complutense University of Madrid. The…
2024-10-06 Japan’s Kojima Has History of Making Blue Jeans
In the Japanese town of Kojima, the main road is named Jeans Street. This street is where people from around the world come to visit. The drink machines at the…
2024-10-05 Is ‘Pie in the Sky’ Just a Dream?
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, notes on usage, and sometimes,…
2024-10-04 Spanish Scientist Uses Bacteria to Repair 18th-century Artworks
Spanish scientist Pilar Bosch has found a way to use bacteria to repair 18th-century paintings. Bosch, a microbiologist, tells Reuters she got the idea for the method while considering possibilities…
2024-10-04 A Municipal Report by O. Henry
Our story today is called “A Municipal Report.” It was written by O. Henry and first published in 1904. Here is Shep O’Neal with the story. It was raining as…
2024-10-04 Obviously and Apparently
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Martha about the usage of two adverbs commonly used in spoken English. Question Dear Teacher, I’m wondering if…
2024-10-03 Argentine Town Struggles with Parrot Invasion
The Argentine town of Hilario Ascasubi near the country’s Atlantic coast has a problem not many places have ever had. It has too many parrots. Biologists say thousands of the…
2024-10-03 Moving Homeless People to Shelter Is Not Easy
Edgar Tapia works on the Homeless Outreach Team of San Francisco, California. He goes to places where people are living in the streets and tells them there is space for…
2024-10-03 How Much Do You Know about Quantifiers?
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going to talk about different ways of expressing quantity in English. A quantifier is a word or number that…