谷歌称人工智能对乳腺癌检测准确率达99%

Google: AI Found Breast Cancer with 99 Percent Accuracy Google says it is deeply involved in developing artificial intelligence, or AI, to help doctors identify and treat disease. The company previously announced successful tests of machine learning

非学位课程或隐藏性别歧视

Non-degree Programs May Not Serve Men and Women Equally Generations of people in the United States have seen higher education as the best path towards a well-paying and satisfying job. But the cost of attending colleges and universities in the countr

Roe v. Wade Aimed to Settle Dispute About Abortion. It Didn't.

Roe versus Wade is one of the best known Supreme Court cases. The issue is whether a healthy woman has a right to end a pregnancy through an abortion. In Texas in the early 1970s, state law barred such operations. A 22-year-old pregnant woman living

Students Win Legal Action against US Education Department

Students defrauded by for-profit colleges won an important legal victory on Tuesday. A U.S. federal court ruled against a request to delay a policy from former President Barack Obamas administration. The policy makes it easier for those students to g

Why Do We Use 'Rx' for Medicine?

And now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Each week, we tell about terms and expressions we use in American English. Sometimes we give you the origin, or starting point. But oftentimes language experts do not know exactly how

女性攀登非洲最高峰

Women Climb Africas Highest Mountain for a Cause A group of six women decided to climb Africas highest mountain in an effort to bring public attention to a physical condition they share. The women suffer from albinism, a genetic condition in which a

High Oil Prices Help Vietnam, Hurt Its Fuel Buyers

An increase in world oil prices is helping Vietnam speed economic growth and build new roads and bridges. But it also means higher fuel prices for its own people. Vietnam is not a major oil-producing nation like some Middle Eastern nations. However,

Power Returns to Indonesian City but Condition of Thousands Unknown

Electric power stations were operating again and some businesses reopened in the Indonesian city of Palu on Thursday. However, the condition of thousands of people in nearby communities was unknown nearly a week after an earthquake and tsunami hit th

VOA慢速英语2018 专家:城市发展将加剧住房危机

Experts: Growth of Cities Will Worsen Housing Crisis Close to 70 percent of the world's population will live in cities by the year 2050. That prediction comes from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 到2050年，全球近70

VOA慢速英语2018 美国人最喜欢做的事

Americans Favorite Thing To Do Americans favorite activity has long been said to be baseball. But a new study by the U.S. government suggests that is not true. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says Americans seem to enjoy watching television more than

VOA慢速英语--于亚利桑那州生物圈2号实验25周年

25 Years Later: Biosphere 2 Lives On An unusual scientific experiment ended 25 years ago when eight people walked out of a miniature Earth called Biosphere 2. Biosphere 2 is a collection of large, connected buildings in the American state of Arizona.

VOA慢速英语2018--男孩把自己变成玩具

Boy Loves Toys, Becomes a Toy Himself A seven-year-old boy who loves toys has now become a toy himself. Ryan, a first-grade student, has been making YouTube videos for three years. The videos usually show him opening a toy, playing with it and then w

VOA慢速英语2018--'William Wilson,' by Edgar Allan Poe, Part Two

In the first part of my story I spoke about my life at my first school, and about the other boys over whom I gained firm control. But there was one boy who would not follow my commands, who would not do what I told him to, as the other boys did. His

VOA慢速英语2018--Dead as a Doornail

Believe it or not, the English language has about 25,000 idiomatic expressions. And some of the oldest ones have very interesting histories. Today our question involves an expression from early English literature. It comes from Dimitrije in Serbia. H

VOA慢速英语2018 哈佛被指控歧视亚裔美国人

Harvard Accused of Discriminating Against Asian-Americans A United States federal court in Boston, Massachusetts, is hearing a discrimination case against the oldest university in the country. 马萨诸塞州波士顿市的一家联邦法院正在审理

VOA慢速英语--Four Adverbs: Just, Already, Still, Yet

Sometimes, the most common words in the English language can cause the most trouble. Today, we will talk about four adverbs that are often unclear to English learners. All four words relate to time in some way. They are just, already, still and yet.

澳大利亚科学家推出一种望远镜来观察地下深处

Australian Scientists Propose a Telescope to Look Deep Underground Scientists in Australia want to build what they describe as a downward looking telescope to look for mineral wealth under the Earths surface. The telescope is really a project aimed a

VOA慢速英语2018 仿真机器人"佩珀"亮相英国议会

Humanoid Pepper Appears in Britains Parliament A robot appeared with British lawmakers earlier this week to demonstrate how machines are being engineered to act like human beings. 本周初，一个机器人与英国议员一起示范了机器是如何

VOA慢速英语2018 韩国和朝鲜开始移除边境地雷

South, North Korea Begin Removing Landmines from Border South and North Korea are reported to have started removing landmines from along their heavily defended border. 据报道，韩国和朝鲜已开始移除重兵把守的边境区域地雷。 Sou

VOA慢速英语2018 两位科学家获2018年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖

Two Scientists Win Nobel Medicine Prize for Cancer Discoveries Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for research leading to new successful cancer treatments. 两位科学家获得了诺贝尔医学奖，因为他们的研究成功导致了