2001-10-04 Robotic Surgery
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. French doctors and American scientists have reported performing a complete operation in which the doctor was outside the operating room. This kind…
2001-10-03 Bacteria and Stomach Cancer
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Researchers say the bacterium that causes stomach wounds, or ulcers, is also the leading cause of stomach cancer. The bacterium is called…
2001-09-27 Planning for Safer Buildings
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Experts are beginning to study ways to secure large buildings against terrorist attacks. They are reacting to the attacks that destroyed the…
2001-09-26 Sports Drugs
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. A new study says many young people in the United States take substances that claim to make people perform sports better. The…
2001-09-20 Number of Human Genes Questioned
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. Scientists are questioning a widely reported finding from the first detailed study of the human gene map. The scientists dispute the finding…
2001-09-19 African Elephants
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Scientists say African elephants that live in the forest and those that live in grasslands are different enough to be considered separate…
2001-09-13 Earthquake Threat in the Himalayas
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. American and Indian scientists say new evidence shows that India and nearby countries are in danger of suffering a huge earthquake in…
2001-09-12 Search for Long Life Gene
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. In the year Nineteen-Hundred, a baby born in the United States could expect to live to be about forty-nine years old. Today,…
2001-09-06 Failing Memory
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. It is common for older people to forget things. Now an American study has found that memory starts to fail when we…
2001-12-20 Human Transporter
This the VOA Special English Science Report. An American inventor, Dean Kamen, says he has invented the world’s first self-balancing individual transport vehicle. It is called the Segway Human Transporter.…
2001-12-19 Baby Elephant
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. People in Washington, D-C, are celebrating a new arrival. An Asian elephant was born November twenty-fifth at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park.…
2001-12-13 Smallest Lizard
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. American scientists say they have discovered the world’s smallest lizard. The little reptile is only about sixteen millimeters long. The scientists found…
2001-12-06 Stop Smoking
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. The World Health Organization estimates that more than four-million people die each year from the effects of smoking tobacco. That number is…
2001-12-12 Rheumatoid Arthritis and Decaf Coffee
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Medical researchers say older women may be increasing their chances of developing the disease rheumatoid arthritis if they drink a lot of…
2001-12-26 Christmas Holiday Plants
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Christmas has many traditions. Singing songs. Cooking foods. Giving gifts. Some special trees and plants also are part of the Christmas tradition.…