2014-11-17 Robot Takes Cues from Deadly Rattlesnakes
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. Five years ago, the Mars Rover Spirit got stuck in sand…
2014-11-10 Scientists Put Living Human Tissue on Silicon Chip
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. Testing new drugs for safety and effectiveness is a costly process…
2014-11-03 American Scientists Work on Printing of Living Tissue Replacements
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. Three-dimensional printers are fast becoming everyday devices in the United States.…
2014-10-30 Questions for NASA after Rocket Explosion
An unmanned privately-owned rocket bringing supplies to the International Space Station exploded seconds after launch Tuesday night. The accident did…
2014-10-27 Teens Help Seniors Bridge High-Tech Generational Gap
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. When most people imagine a classroom, they think of older people…
2014-10-20 Young Cameroon Engineer Invents Cardiopad
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. Cameroon is experimenting with Africa’s first mobile system to send a…
2014-10-20 Is Cheetah Fast Enough to Survive?
In 1900, about 100,000 cheetahs lived in the world. Today there are only 10,000 of the animals. Just about everyone…
2014-10-13 World’s Rich Get Their Own Facebook
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. Facebook and other social media sites are free for everyone. But…
2014-10-06 Surveillance Software Key Concern at Internet Governance Meeting
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. The Internet Governance Forum took place last week in Istanbul, Turkey.…
2014-09-29 ‘Electronic Heroin’ Spawns Chinese Internet Addiction Camps
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. The Internet is one of the most popular forms of technology.…
2014-09-28 Spinosaurus, a Swimming Dinosaur Bigger than T-Rex
Could a creature that lived 95 million years ago travel from what is now North Africa to Europe and even…
2014-09-26 Smartphone App Gives ‘Sight’ to the Blind
A new computer program is being praised as a life-changer for blind people. The new program is known as the…
2014-09-22 Researchers at Virginia Tech Test Drones for FAA Rules
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. The Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, has chosen a university town…
2014-09-17 NASA Chooses Boeing, SpaceX to Fly Austronauts
Three years after the United States ended the space shuttle program, the American space agency today announced the return of…
2014-09-15 Brain Imaging Comes to Children in Africa
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. Brain imaging was once thought to be too costly and difficult…