2023-10-02 Southeast Asian Countries Consider Sharing Energy, Power
Southeast Asian nations are increasingly looking to share power as a result of concerns about climate change. Malaysia and Indonesia…
2023-10-02 Scientists Win Nobel Medicine Prize for COVID-19 Vaccine Research
Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for making molecule discoveries that helped create COVID-19 vaccines. The Nobel…
2023-10-02 FDA Health Advisors Vote Against ALS Treatment
United States health advisers voted against an experimental treatment for ALS disease last week. The vote came after years of…
2023-10-01 Japanese Women Drawn to Rickshaw Pulling
Rickshaw comes from a Japanese word that means “human-powered vehicle.” The vehicle was first used in 19th-century Japan and then…
2023-10-01 Why Immigrants Are More Hopeful Than US-born Americans
Immigrants in America are more hopeful about the future than citizens who were born in the United States. That is…
2023-10-01 Research Shows Genetic Influence of Neanderthals, Denisovans
Neanderthals live on within us. These ancient human relatives, and others, called Denisovans, once lived alongside our early Homo sapiens…
2023-10-01 NASA to Use Special Spacecraft to Deorbit Space Station
The American space agency NASA has a new plan for deorbiting the International Space Station (ISS). The plan involves developing…
2023-09-30 Franklin D. Roosevelt: Powerful
VOA Learning English presents America’s Presidents. Today we are talking about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was related to an earlier…
2023-09-30 Educators: Improving Teachers’ Math Skills Will Aid Students
Many elementary school teachers say they dislike the idea of teaching mathematics even at the most basic level. That is…
2023-09-29 Race to Help Largest, Rarest Tortoise
The average life expectancy of North America’s largest and rarest tortoise species is unknown. But scientists say the animals could…
2023-09-29 Paris Once Had Too Many Cars, Now It Has Too Many Bikes
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has long worked to make her city less dependent on cars. She wanted to see more…