2024-07-15 Can Resistance Training Keep Us Feeling Young?
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Some experts suggest that lifting weights is the best way to keep our bodies strong and healthy as we…
2024-07-14 Ants Can Perform Amputations to Save Lives
Human doctors perform amputations, or removal of an arm, leg, or finger, after a serious injury. The purpose of this action is to prevent infection or disease. But humans are…
2024-07-14 Man Regains His Voice with the Help of a Rare Medical Operation
A man in the Northeastern state of Massachusetts has regained his voice after a rare operation. Marty Kedian received a total transplant of his larynx, the organ responsible for speech,…
2024-07-14 NASA Researchers End One-year Mars Habitat Mission
Four scientists have left a model Mars environment where they lived in isolation for more than a year. The crew took part in the experiment for the American space agency…
2024-07-13 What Gives You ‘Food for Thought’?
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore words and expressions in the English language. We hope it gives you something to think…
2024-07-13 Large Gift Covers Costs for Johns Hopkins Medical Classes
Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland will no longer pay for classes thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Starting in the autumn, the…
2024-07-12 The Story of America’s First Novel
In the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected as the first United States president, a printer quietly published what would become the first American novel. William…
2024-07-12 ‘The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock,’ by O. Henry
We present the short story “The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock” by O. Henry. The story was originally adapted and recorded by the U.S. Department of State. Prince Michael of…
2024-07-12 Zest, Drive, Desire
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Anora in China about the usage of three similar words. Question Dear teacher, I am confused by the…
2024-07-11 US Farmers Use Tree from India to Produce Proteins, Biofuel
American farmers are using an ancient tree from India to produce beans for making protein-rich foods and biofuels. The tree is called pongamia. It is native to India, Southeast Asia…
2024-07-11 Who Were the Denisovans, Ancestors of Modern Humans?
Pieces of bones in a cave in the Tibetan highlands have given researchers new evidence of the mysterious human ancestors known as Denisovans. International researchers examined more than 2,500 bones…