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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Madeleine Peyroux: A Young Singer With a Voice From the Past By Lawan Davis and Dana Demange Broadcast: Friday, August 12, 2005 (MUSIC) HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Speci
The Power Of Cute Its time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes: Dear A Moment of Science, Ive heard that owning a dog or cat can be a good way to deal with stress and ward off depression. So I was wonderingis it interact
Why Do I Fear The Dentist? Dear A Moment of Science, I hate going to the dentist. In fact, I openly fear it. Yet Ive never actually had a really bad or painful experience with a dentist. So why do I fear it so much? Youre certainly not alone. Quaking
Death By Peanut Peanuts are one of the worlds most nutritious foods. Peanuts contain pound for pound more protein, vitamins, and minerals than beef liver and more fat than heavy cream. For approximately .5% of Americans, however, peanuts are not so b
What Causes A Lump In Your Throat? Oftentimes when we cry, we feel a lump in the throat. Does a lump actually form, or is there some other explanation? 图片1 Explanation The lump-like thing we feel when overcome by emotion has to do with how the ne
Blowing Milk Out Of Your Nose Remember back in grade school sitting at the lunch table when someone cracked a joke just after you took a swig of milk? As you laughed milk spurted out your nose and sprayed everyone around you. Now thats entertainment.
Are Cockroaches Actually Useful? The natural History of the Cockroach, on this Moment of Science. For certain species of cockroach, humans make the perfect roommates. Why do cockroaches like living in our houses? And what do they do when theyre not b
Why Dont Marks On The Surface Of The Moon Disappear? In 1969 when Neil Armstrong said Thats one small step, he made a lasting impression. On the moon, that is. Marks on the surface of the moon dont disappear the way marks on the Earth do; a great exa
Ice Age Plant Survives To Modern Day Like a science fiction time traveler, an arctic plant of the late Pleistocene age, over thirty one thousand years old, is growing again after a long frozen sleep. History Narrow leafed campion (Silene stenophylla)
The Science Of Acne Acne: the scourge of adolescence. Most people endure it at some point, and cant wait to be rid of the combination of whiteheads, blackheads, pimples, and pustules that comprise the skin condition that affects over 80% of teenagers
Cilantro: Love It Or Hate It? On todays Moment of Science, well be sniffing our way through a controversial culinary conundrum: the great cilantro debate. According to scientists working at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, the smell of cilantro usu
Like most twins, Scott Kelly says he and his brother, Mark, shared a lot as kids, even taking the same part-time jobs in high school. When we were 17 years old we worked for the same ambulance company. I think that at one point we even made pizzas to
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We tend to mark our successes in life, but what if we're thinking about it the wrong way? What if it's failure that shapes us? All this month in a series we're calling Total Failure, we will examine mistakes and how they change p
On a cold October day this year in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, about 100 scientists were busy preparing to test their independently developed high-altitude airship. After a 22 hour flight around 20 kilometers above the earth, the airshi
The Tiangong-2 space lab, though adopting the structure of Tiangong-1 without too many changes in appearance, has been designed to function much stronger than its predecessor. Zhu Congpeng, chief designer of the lab, says they've focused on a variety
By Gergely, Valer Moscow and Washington 14 March 2007 watch Gergely report Space tourism is no longer science fiction, at least for those who can afford it. Private companies around the world are now competing to become leaders in commercial space a
By Lisa McAdams Moscow 06 April 2007 Watch video by Valer Gergely American computer software entrepreneur Charles Simonyi is reportedly paying about $25 million to fulfill his childhood dream of flying in space. He follows in the footsteps of Dennis
The Tiangong-1 is now undergoing its final preparations for its launch tonight from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu. Ahead of the historic launch, CRI secured an opportunity to talk to one of the few astronauts who has spent time living
THE APOLLO PROGRAM CAME AFTER THE GEMINI PROGRAM. APOLLO SPACECRAFT WERE BIGGER AND BETTER. NASA THOUGHT A MOON LANDING MIGHT HAPPEN IN 1967. THREE ASTRONAUTS WERE CHOSEN FOR THE FIRST APOLLO MISSIONROGER CHAFFEE, GUS GRISSOM, AND ED WHITE, THE KIND
For a long time, the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics has been the cradle for China's space industry talent. Today a special competition was held on campus to mark the day and shape the future. They are the astronauts and spacecraft