2001-08-10 Female Hormones and Heart Disease
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. The American Heart Association has changed its advice about older women and female hormones. The organization now says healthy order women should…
2001-08-09 Iceman’s Death
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Scientists have announced the cause of death for a man who died five-thousand-three-hundred years ago. The scientists say the man was killed…
2001-08-03 The Perseid Meteor Shower
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. This month, you can see with your own eyes how material from space falls to Earth. Space material, which is mostly rock,…
2001-08-02 DDT Linked to Premature Births
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. American scientists have found that the chemical D-D-T increases the risk of pregnant women giving birth too soon. They say the use…
2001-07-27 Rules for Genetically Engineered Foods
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. A group responsible for world food safety has agreed on the first international rules to govern the safety of foods made with…
2001-07-26 Reduction in Deep Sea Current
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Scientists say there has been a reduction in the flow of a deep sea current during the past fifty years. The current…
2001-07-20 Johns Hopkins Malaria Institute
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland has received one-hundred-million dollars to develop new medicines to prevent and treat the disease malaria. The…
2001-07-18 Men’s Heart Risk
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. A recent American study shows that a man’s race and where he lives affect his chances of dying of heart disease. Heart…
2001-07-12 Leaning Tower of Pisa Repaired
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. Engineers are celebrating the completion of repairs to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Italian officials closed the Leaning Tower for safety reasons…
2001-07-11 Vitamin C and DNA
This is the VOA Special English Science Report. . cientists at the University of Pennsylvania experimented with vitamin C in test tubes. They published the results in the publication Science.…
2001-07-05 Ancient Human Hunters
This is the VOA Special English SCIENCE REPORT. Scientists have long debated what caused many kinds of large animals in North America and Australia to disappear. Two new studies blame…
2001-12-28 Warm Year
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Scientists expect this year to be the second warmest year ever recorded. They say average surface temperatures this year will be warmer…
2001-12-07 UN Environment Prize
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. An American environmental activist, Huey Johnson, has won the United Nations Sasakawa Environment Prize this year. The prize is worth two-hundred-thousand dollars.…
2001-12-21 UN Fishing Treaty
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. An international treaty to deal with overfishing in the world’s oceans went into effect last week. The treaty establishes new rules for…
2001-12-14 Pollution Threatens Water Cycle
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. A new report says pollution caused by people may be seriously threatening the Earth’s water supply. Scientists say small particles of soot…