US to Conclude Probe into Treatment of Afghanistan Detainees

Michael Kitchen The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan says he expects an investigation into the treatment of Afghan detainees in U.S. custody to finish in the next two weeks. Speaking to repo

中英双语新闻 NASA太阳探测器将破天荒进入日冕

BBC News. The Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani, has described the bomb attack, which killed ninety people in the capital, Kabul, as a crime against humanity. A BBC driver, Mohammed Nazir, is among the dead. Afghanistan's intelligence service suggested

US Spacecraft to Probe Origin of Gamma Rays

By David McAlary The U.S. space agency, NASA, launched a satellite Saturday that scientists hope will help them locate the sources of mysterious gamma ray explosions, the brightest most energetic burs

VOA慢速英语--美国宇航局航天器近距离研究太阳

NASA Spacecraft to Study the Sun Up Close The United States space agency will launch a spacecraft to explore the sun more closely than ever before on Saturday. NASAs Parker Solar Probe will fly through the hot solar atmosphere and come within just 6

VOA慢速英语--NASA Spacecraft to Study the Sun Up Close

The United States space agency will launch a spacecraft to explore the sun more closely than ever before on Saturday. NASAs Parker Solar Probe will fly through the hot solar atmosphere and come within just 6 million kilometers of the suns surface. Th

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-09-18

1. Secretary of State John Kerry opened two days of meetings with his Russian counterpart in Geneva Thursday. They hope to settle on the outlines of a plan to secure and destroy Syrian chemical weapons stockpiles and avoid US strikes. 2. In Colorado,

VOA慢速英语2014 飞船历史性的在彗星上着陆

Young Technology Expert Works to Stop Car Thefts Kenya is East Africas largest economy. Its capital Nairobi is growing quickly. But so is the citys crime rate -- the Nairobi Metropolitan Crime Observatory says thieves steal an average of 10 cars each

科学家们将虚拟现实技术应用到医学上

Virtual Reality Applications in Medicine, Security on Horizon 科学家们将虚拟现实技术应用到医学上 For now, virtual reality is still mostly associated with video games. But computer chips that process video images are getting better an

英闻天下——57 Google Forced to Change Practices over Probe

Google has agreed to make some changes to its business practices as a result of a 20-month investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC accused the search giant of unfair conduct in the use of its Motorola patents and ordered it to

英语听力：自然百科 行星旅行：土星 Saturn—13

Planet earth never attempted to land on such a distant world before. With Huygens probe on final approach to Titan, operations switch to European mission control. The probe hurtled into Titans atmosphere at 6km a second, the atmosphere would have bee

NASA's probe confirms Einstein space-time theories

WASHINGTON, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Wednesday that its Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions（预测预言 ） derived from Albert Einstein's general theory

NASA Messenger Probe Set for Historic Orbit Around Mercury

The U.S. space agency NASAs Messenger probe（正直的，廉洁的 ） is scheduled to reach Mercury later this week, and become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet closest to the sun. During Messengers year-long orbital mission, scientists exp

美国宇航局时隔两年找回失联太阳观测卫星

After losing communication with a space probe two years ago, NASA says it has reestablished contact. 在和一颗卫星失联长达两年之后，美国宇航局日前宣布，已和它重新取得了联系。 NASA said it lost contact with the Solar

NASA's twin probes reach lunar orbit

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Twin U.S. spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core put themselves into the lunar orbit on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, the country's space agency said. The second Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory, o

VOA标准英语2009年-Youths Return Amid Probe Into Kenyan M

Dozens of ethnic-Somali youths in northeastern Kenya, have returned home amid a parliamentary inquiry into allegations they were recruited by the Kenyan military and taken to a military training camp under false pretenses. As our correspondent report

CCTV9英语新闻：Former military leader Guo Boxiong confesses to graft charges

Related reading: BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Guo Boxiong, former vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission (CMC), has confessed to taking bribes, military prosecutors said Tuesday. Military prosecutors have finished investigating Guo's al

夏说英语新闻晨读 第280期:卡西尼计划

本期内容： The American-led Cassini space mission to Saturn has just come to a spectacular end. Controllers had commanded the probe to destroy itself by plunging into the planet's atmosphere. It survived for just over a minute before being broke

英闻天下——250 Long Road ahead for Dreamliners Batteries Probe

U.S. safety regulators say they have a long road ahead in their investigation into the lithium ion battery problems on Boeing's 787 Dreamliners. The head of the National Transportation Safety Board says they will file their interim findings in 30 day

发照片 做外星人认识的第一个地球人

NASA wants to send your messages to aliens. 美国国家航空航天局想要将你的消息发给外星人。 Back in the 1970s the Voyager 1 probe was sent out into space containing a record of images and words selected by Carl Sagan and others. Th

夏说英语新闻晨读 第84期:中兴电信在美受到调查

本期内容： The Chinese telecom firm ZTE said the American governments probe into its trade practices may result in criminal and civil liabilities. American authorities imposed trade curbs as they investigated alleged violations of trade sanction