EXPLORATIONS - After 30 Years, the Space Shuttle Program Retires MARIO RITTER: I'm Mario Ritter. BARBARA KLEIN: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we talk about the final American space shuttle flight. Last wee

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Researchers have known about these high-pitched squeaky songs for years. But they only recently discovered that mice can learn the songs of other mice. Such vocal learning is a rarity among animals. We know of only three kinds of birdsparrots, hummin

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Back on Svalbard, it's high summer. Barnacle geese that had overwintered in Scotland have started to breed. Their calls bring hope to hungry bears. The cub stays back as his mother explores the possibilities. Bears have only recently discovered this

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Did Ben Franklin really discover electricity with a kite? 本.富兰克林真的靠一只风筝发现了电吗? Everybody has heard the famous story of how pioneering experimenterand part-time founding fatherBen Franklin tied a key to a kite string

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(BBC News) American scientists have discovered a fossil of a duck-sized,flightless dinosaur,which was apparently covered in feathers. (英国国家广播公司报道)美国科学家发现了一个鸭子大小的化石,那是一只无法飞行

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今天我们要学的词是mental disorder. Mental disorder精神疾病。For the first time, the World Health Organization is classifying gaming disorder as a mental disorder. 世界卫生组织首次将游戏成瘾归类为一种精神疾病。At t

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Beneath the hot-skillet surface of the outback where the baked soil crumbles like ashes, there are treasures to be found. In endless warrens of burrowing and hole, every hour of every day, you can find people digging. And virtually all of these indi

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By Ernest Leong Washington, DC 24 April 2006 watch Judas Gospel report Gospel According to Judas, Egyptian Coptic codex In Christian theology, the character of Judas has long been reviled as the apost

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's some newly discovered artworks up for auction this weekend in Massachusetts. They're by Andy Warhol, who died more than three decades ago. We don't know how much the works are worth until they sell, but we do know their val

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's talk about a new movie. It's called Hostiles, and it tells the story of a U.S. Army captain. It's the Old West, 1892. The captain has spent decades fighting Indians and seeing his friends killed and then is ordered to commit

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Let's take a look at the financial markets and the tumbled US amid those concerns the congress may not meet the dead line to raise the debt ceiling. A business editor Peter R says if the US does go off the fisical cliffs with risk sparking another re

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By Paul Sisco Washington 05 March 2008 Hummingbirds are among the most fascinating creatures in the avian world. The male Anna hummingbird, the most common on the U.S. west coast, makes a high-pitched chirp, or screech, when it dives to guard its nes

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Beneath the hot-skillet surface of the outback where the baked soil crumbles like ashes, there are treasures to be found. In endless warrens of burrowing and hole, every hour of every day, you can find people digging. And virtually all of these indiv

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 15 September 2006 watch New Planet report Scientists in Washington D.C. have announced the discovery of a new planet. It is the largest planet ever seen from Earth. New planet, HAT-P-1 It is just weeks since Pluto was re

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For centuries, legend had it that a bountiful treasure of gold and silver sat at the bottom of the Minjiang River, near Pengshan city in China's Sichuan province. It was said to belong to Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of a peasant uprising that occurre

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今天我们要学的词是fetch。 Fetch, 是指某件物品能够卖多少价钱的意思。最近珠宝开发人员在南非发现了罕见的日落黄钻石。 The Sun-Drop Diamond discovered in South Africa is expected to fetch $15 million when

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By Carol Pearson Washington 04 April 2008 April second marked World Autism Day -- a day set aside by the United Nations to raise awareness of this bio-neurological disorder that impacts the development of the brain. Some countries have designated the

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By Scott Stearns Dakar 17 September 2009 A U.S. oil company has found what could be commercially viable reserves of oil off the coast of Sierra Leone. The first ever deep-water test well in the Sierra Leone-Liberia basin struck a deposit of hydrocar

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: Many other genes have been identified which increase the likelihood of depression too. And it makes sense when you consider that depression and bipolar disorder both run in families. 许多其他的

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30 minute love affair All in the blink of an eye There you were standing there I heard an angel cry Runaway lover I soon discovered It was best when we left it I'll never forget it Our 30 minute love affair The city lead me out one night Through lone

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