SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Study Confirms Earth-like Planet in What Scientists Call The Habitable Zone MARIO RITTER: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Mario Ritter. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein. Today, we tell about the discov

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

Scientists Deliberate Cleaning Space Junk WASHINGTON Everything that we launch into an orbit around the earth eventually becomes space debris. Scientists say the increasing number of unusable objects circling our planet is threatening functioning sat

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(六月)

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week, we tell about a discovery of gorillas in the Republic of Congo and the loss of Bengal tigers in Nepal. We also tell about

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(八)月

DAVID GREENE, HOST: In China, a new commitment to scientific research seems to be paying off. Chinese scientists now produce more scientific publications than American researchers do. The global ratings of Chinese universities are on the rise, and Ch

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

Scientists say they're making more progress in understanding a rare animal fossil they found in China. International teams from the USA and China discovered a giant otter that lived six million years ago. Paleontologists say the fossil they found in

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 2017CRI中国国际广播电台

By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 05 August 2007 An aerial view of the Siachen Glacier, northwest of Jammu, India U.S. scientists say clouds of man-made haze that blanket southern and eastern Asia are helping accelerate the melting of the Himalayan glaciers.

发表于:2019-01-04 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(八月)

Rocket Scientists Enjoy a Good Reputation Hello. I'm Phil Murray with Words and Their Stories, a program in Special English. You do not need to be a rocket scientist. Americans hear these words often. People say them in schools, offices and factories

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(五)月

The United Nations is observing World Food Day (Saturday, Oct. 16). Food prices have been climbing in recent months because of bad weather in several major agricultural regions. Experts predict there will be more extreme weather as climate changes, j

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十)月

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Three scientists based in the United States have won the two thousand nine Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. They are being honored for their work in the nineteen eighties about the health of cell

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十)月

AS IT IS 2013-05-29 A Call for Citizen Scientists to Help Map CO2 Gas Welcome to As It Is, the daily magazine show from VOA Learning English. Im Mario Ritter. A music video shot in space? That is now a reality. Today, we hear how Skylab led the way f

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(六)月

STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about an American spacecraft that has a date with a comet. We hear the latest about a Space Shuttle commander whose wife co

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(二)月

Higgs Boson Finding Excites Fermilab Scientists Some 200 scientists and other staffers gathered at Fermilab -- at two o'clock in the morning - to watch the announcement from Geneva. Many of them have strong connections to the CERN experiment - using

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(七月)

Scientists Say Africa Sits on Huge Reservoir of Water Scientists say an estimated 300 million people in Africa do not have access to safe drinking water and with climate change making rainfall less predictable, their plight is even more precarious. S

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(四月)

Scientists to Drill Huge Hole in Antarctic Ice Antarctica is the largest reservoir of glacial ice on the planet. An expedition of international scientists is headed to the frozen continent to study why its glaciers are retreating so fast. What they f

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十一月)

'Facebook' for Scientists Could Speed Advances Social networks like Facebook allow users to keep in up with their friends. Now, a social network for scientists hopes to use the technology to speed up scientific progress. As he worked on a medical ima

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(四月)

Scientists Develop New Ways to Track Greenhouse Gases With more than 18 million people living, working and driving in Los Angeles, the city often is covered in a hazy layer of smog. Stan Sander, senior research scientist at the U.S. space agency's Je

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(七月)

Scientists Make Progress Toward Better Diabetes Treatment, Cure Excess sugar, or glucose, in your blood is not good. But a healthy body regulates it through insulin, produced in the organ called the pancreas. If the body fails to do that, either beca

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(二月)

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Livestock is a major source of greenhouse gases around the world. Scientists have been trying to find ways to reduce emissions from cows, and they think they might have found a solution in the ocean. NPR's Merrit Kennedy explains.

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 17 April 2008 Two American scientists, James Galloway and Harold Mooney, have won this year's Tyler Prize for environmental achievement. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan spoke with the winners about their work, and about the state

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(四月)

By Phil Mercer 07 November 2007 Researchers have uncovered a language used by migrating whales off the Australian coast. Thousands of hours of humpback whale sounds recorded off Queensland have revealed a vast repertoire of social sounds. From Sydney

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十一月)