2012-07-24 Digest – American Space Agency Launches Black Hole Hunter
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Christopher Cruise. JUNE SIMMS: And I’m June Simms. Today we tell about American efforts to seek out…
2012-06-26 Digest – ‘The Map of Life’/Ancient Dogs/Golden Gate at 75
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Christopher Cruise. BARBARA KLEIN: And I’m Barbara Klein. Today, we tell about a project called “The Map…
2012-06-19 Digest – The Search for DNA from A Creature That May Not Exist
BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. BARBARA KLEIN: And I’m Barbara Klein. Today we tell about an appeal for genetic material…
2012-06-05 Digest – Venus Transits Sun for Last Time This Century
JUNE SIMMS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m June Simms. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I’m Shirley Griffith. Today, we tell about the planet Venus and what…
2012-05-22 Digest – Chile’s Coastal Recovery; Africa’s Groundwater
BARBARA KLEIN: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Barbara Klein. BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty. Today, we tell about some unexpected effects of a…
2012-04-17 Digest – Group Announces New Effort to Solve the Mystery of Amelia Earhart’s Final Flight
MARIO RITTER: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Mario Ritter. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I’m Shirley Griffith. Today, we tell about efforts to learn what happened…
2012-04-03 Elephants in Cameroon Fall Victim to Killings
BARBARA KLEIN: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Barbara Klein. MARIO RITTER: And I’m Mario Ritter. Wildlife experts are concerned about the growing number of…
2012-02-28 Digest – NASA Celebrates Past While Facing Unsure Future
BARBARA KLEIN: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Barbara Klein. BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty. Today, we remember a major anniversary for the American…
2012-02-14 Digest – American Scientists Create The World’s First Genetically Engineered Monkeys
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Christopher Cruise. JUNE SIMMS: And I’m June Simms. Today, we tell about the creation of what are…
2012-01-31 Digest – A Death in the Family May Cause Real Heart Break
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m SHIRLEY Griffith. MARIO RITTER: And I’m Mario Ritter. Today, we tell about an American study of heart…
2012-01-17 Digest – Youngest Type 1a Supernova Ever Observed
(MUSIC) SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember. Today, we tell about the discovery of what…
2012-01-10 The Moving Story of Plate Tectonics
FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus. BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty. Scientists who study the Earth tell us the continents…
2012-01-03 A Soft Body, but the Mind of a Robot
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember. Today, we tell about soft-bodied robots — robots that…
2011-12-20 Digest – Study Confirms Earth-like Planet in What Scientists Call
MARIO RITTER: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Mario Ritter. BARBARA KLEIN: And I’m Barbara Klein. Today, we tell about the discovery of a planet…
2011-12-13 Digest – Looking Inside the Brains of ‘Lucid Dreamers’
FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus. BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty. Today, we tell how warmer weather in the Arctic…