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.…
2001-12-27 Giving Blood Platelets
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. People all over the world know the importance of giving blood to help people who have lost blood because of an accident…
2001-09-05 Digestive System Camera
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. The American government has approved a device that lets doctors see detailed images from inside the human body. The Food and Drug…
2001-08-30 Testing Possible Treatments for CJD
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. American scientists say that two drugs have shown to be effective against the protein thought to cause the deadly brain condition Creutzfeldt-Jakob…
2001-08-29 AIDS in the United States
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. The disease AIDS was first reported in the United States twenty years ago. By the end of last year, more than seven-hundred-seventy-four-thousand…
2001-08-23 Dinosaur Noses
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. An American scientist has found that many images of dinosaurs may be wrong. For years, pictures of the ancient creatures have shown…
2001-08-22 Cloning Mount Vernon’s Trees
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Tree experts have begun an effort to rebuild forests near the home of America’s first president, George Washington. Earlier this month, workers…
2001-08-17 OxyContin Warning
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. The federal government and manufacturers of the drug OxyContin have increased warnings about its use. Directions on the containers of the pain-killing…
2001-08-16 Designer Antibiotics
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. Researchers in La Jolla, California, have taken steps toward developing effective new antibiotic drugs. M. Reza Ghadiri and other researchers from the…