2001-07-16 WHO and Tuberculosis
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization says the disease tuberculosis could be brought under control in the next five years if nations would provide…
2001-07-09 World Refugee Day
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations estimates that about twenty-two-million people in the world are refugees. To honor them, the U-N celebrated its first international…
2001-07-02 WHO Assembly
This is the VOA Special English DEVELOPMENT REPORT. The head of the World Health Organization says important efforts are being made to fight the world’s serious health problems. But she…
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…
2011-11-22 Anthrax Has Been Widely Feared Since the 2001 Anthrax Attacks in the United States
BARBARA KLEIN: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Barbara Klein. CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And I’m Christopher Cruise. Today we tell about the deadly disease anthrax. (MUSIC)…
2011-06-28 How Much Exercise Do You Really Need?
BOB DOUGHTY: This is the VOA Special English program SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. I’m Bob Doughty. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I’m Shuirley Griffith. Today, we will tell why exercise is so…
2001-06-25 Brain Disorders
This is with the VOA Special English Development Report. An international committee of doctors says that the number of cases of brain diseases in developing countries is rising. The doctors…
2011-06-21 Digest – Mother Bears May Be More Bark Than Bite
FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus. BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty. This week, we tell about the robot collection at…
2011-06-14 Growing Plants and Thinking Inside the Box
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about an American farmer and an unusual device he developed. For nearly twenty years, people…
2011-05-24 Digest – Scientist Working to Save Bees Is Winner of Environmental Prize
BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I’m Shirley Griffith. This week, we tell about the latest winner of…
2011-05-10 Digest – Mangrove Forests Among the Most Carbon-rich Forests in the World
BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And I’m Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell how coastal forests help…
2011-04-26 Digest – Scientists Search for the Lost City of Atlantis
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 about efforts to find the lost…
2011-04-05 Hair
BARBARA KLEIN: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember. Today we talk about hair. We will tell what…
2011-03-29 Digest – Space Shuttle Program Nears an End
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Christopher Cruise. BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty. Today, we will tell about American plans for space…