2023-08-19 Experiment Puts Pig’s Kidney in Brain-dead Human Body
Doctors in New York City have transplanted a pig’s organ into a brain-dead man and watched as it performed normally…
2023-08-19 Theodore Roosevelt: Energetic
VOA Learning English presents America’s Presidents. Today we are talking about Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States.…
2023-08-19 Educators Seek to Stop AI Use for Cheating
Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) services – such as ChatGPT – have become a major resource for cheating in university. Now,…
2023-08-18 Climate Change Creates Questions for Alaska’s Tourist Economy
Alaska’s Mendenhall glacier is about 20 minutes by car from Juneau, the state capital. It is one of the area’s…
2023-08-18 Fiction Writers Fear the Rise of AI, and See it As a Story to Tell
For many book writers, artificial intelligence (AI) is a threat to their jobs and the very idea of creativity. More…
2023-08-18 Descent vs. Ancestry
Hi there! This week on Ask a Teacher, we will answer a question about the difference between “descent” and “ancestry.”…
2023-08-17 China’s Economic Problems Rising
China’s exports fell 14.5 percent in July compared with a year earlier. The report builds pressure on the ruling Chinese…
2023-08-17 Why Are Major Powers Interested in the Moon?
Russia recently launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years. The launch comes during a time of competition by major…
2023-08-17 African Leadership Groups Concerned about Military Takeover in Niger
Defense leaders from the West African group of nations known as ECOWAS are meeting to discuss the political crisis in…
2023-08-17 Present Tense in ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’
The band Fallout Boy recently released a version of the song, We Didn’t Start the Fire. The song was first…