2009-12-08 Digest – How Nine Researchers Won Their Nobel Prizes
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And I’m Mario Ritter. Today, we will tell about the two thousand nine…
2009-12-01 ‘On the Origin of Species’ Celebrated and Debated 150 Years Later
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Doug Johnson. November twenty-fourth marked the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of…
2009-11-24 Digest – How You Look in Pictures Tells a Lot About You
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And, I’m Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about efforts against the…
2009-11-17 Digest – A Serious Study Looks at Laughter Worldwide
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Barbara Klein. Today, we will tell about a plan to fight…
2009-11-10 Norman Borlaug, Pioneer of the Green Revolution
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I’m Doug Johnson. Today we tell about the American plant scientist Norman…
2009-11-03 Digest -Researchers Give the Green Flag to a Race Car
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Faith Lapidus. Today, we will tell about a genetic map of…
2009-10-27 Digest – Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks Less This Year
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell the latest about sea…
2009-10-13 Digest – Scientists Report Progress in Tests of a Vaccine Against the AIDS Virus
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about an experimental vaccine…
2009-10-06 On Chesapeake Bay, an Island Saved from Sinking
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Shirley Griffith. Today we tell about efforts to save an island…
2009-09-29 Digest – How Changes on the Sun Can Affect Our Climate
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about a study linking…
2009-09-22 Digest – Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch: Where World’s Trash Collects
VOICE ONE: This is the VOA Special English program SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Doug Johnson. This week, we will tell about a drug…
2009-09-08 Digest – Alcohol Linked to One in 25 Deaths Worldwide
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Barbara Klein. This week, we tell about deaths around the world…
2009-09-01 Digest – Cutting Calories, Monkeys That Eat Less Live Longer
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Barbara Klein. This week, we tell about how thin monkeys live…
2009-08-25 Digest – Part-Time Astronomer Makes a Rare Discovery Looking at Jupiter
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Shirley Griffith. This week, we will tell about evidence that something…
2009-08-18 Digest – Swearing as Pain Relief: When Bad Words Can Make You Feel Good
This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember. This week, we will tell about new concerns about the H1N1…