NPR 2008-07-11

The Senate is on the verge of approving a massive housing bill aimed at helping homeowners facing foreclosure. NPR's Brian Naylor has more. The bill would provide homeowners who can no longer afford to make their monthly payments a chance to qualify

VOA慢速英语2016 科学家:猴子用木筏横渡海洋

Scientists: Monkeys Used Raft to Cross Ocean 科学家:猴子用木筏横渡海洋 Scientists found seven monkey teeth that became fossils in an area near the Panama Canal. The teeth were more than five million years old. Scientists think that is whe

NPR 2008-07-19

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's planned trip to the Middle East drew faint praise today from his Re:publican rival John McCain. Sarah Hulett of Michigan Radio reports. Senator McCain told an audience at a General Motors facility in

趣味青春英语 第87期:Move heaven and earth

Idiom: Move heaven and earth 经历千辛万苦做成某事 Hit the books: 1. space station 空间站 2. soil 土壤 3. astronaut 宇航员 4. orbit 轨道，围绕进行旋转 5. unreliable 不可靠的 6. laptop 手提电脑，笔记本电脑 7. ch

PBS高端访谈:犹他州私有天然气钻井交易

JEFFREY BROWN:And next, we continue our series on the big changes in energy production in the U.S. In previous stories, Ray Suarez has looked at the impact of oil production on some boomtowns and how a demand for natural gas is changing the business

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VOA标准英语2011--Space Crew to Enjoy Thanksgiving Feast in Orbit

Space Crew to Enjoy Thanksgiving Feast in Orbit The three crew members on the International Space Station plan to have their own Thanksgiving feast on Thursday as they orbit 352 kilometers above the earth. The lone American on board plans to share so

SSS 2009-01-05

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? We residents of the Milky Way should have a little extra skip in our step today. Turns out our home galaxy is much bigger and moving a lot faster than we previously th

科学家称发现太阳系新行星

Is There a Ninth Planet in Our Solar System? 科学家称发现太阳系新行星 Scientists said they have found evidence of a giant planet far out in our solar system. In a statement, the California Institute of Technology Caltech -- said this plan

VOA标准英语2012--Could Rising Temperatures Mean Smaller Mammals?

Could Rising Temperatures Mean Smaller Mammals? Scientists say in the ancient past, higher temperatures meant smaller mammals. Theyre studying how a brief, but dramatic climate change event affected body size. Its called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Washington, D.C., A Program In Which Birds And People Lift Each Other Up

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For young people growing up east of the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., life can be a struggle against gangs and violence. And for much of its modern history, the river itself has been under assault, considered one of the most

2017年CRI China's cargo spacecraft refuels space lab in orbit

China's first cargo spacecraft has refueled the Tiangong-2 space lab in orbit for the first time. Tianzhou-1, which was launched April 20th from Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province, successfully completed an automated dockin

2016年CRI Chinese space lab Tiangong-2 kicks off in-orbit tests, waiting for docking with Shenzhou-11

Hours after Tiangong-2 was successfully launched, the space lab conducted its first transfer of orbit at 2:45 am Beijing time on Friday morning. In the meantime, it has also started in-orbit tests, which are a series of examinations on the functions

2006年VOA标准英语-New York Museum Exhibits World's Most Expensive

By Barbara Schoetzau New York 12 July 2006 The world's most expensive painting is now on exhibit in New York's Neue Galerie. The head of the small museum purchased the exotic Gustav Klimt painting less than one month ago for what experts say is a re

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - The Story of How a 1907 Painting by Klimt Just Sold for a Record $135 MillionBy Dana Demange, Sarah Randle and Nancy Stienbach Broadcast: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:00:00 UTC HOST: Welcome t

Orbit tower unveiled in London's Olympic park

LONDON, May 11 (Xinhua) -- A controversial steel tower was unveiled in the Olympic park of London on Friday, about two and a half months before opening of the Games, which was hoped to become of a new icon of the city and bring more visitors. The tow

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

MESSENGER Spacecraft Will Be First to Orbit Planet Mercury

The U.S. space probe MESSENGER is poised to enter orbit around Mercury（水银） early Friday, Universal time, capping a nearly seven-year journey to the solar systems innermost planet. Scientists with the U.S. space agency, NASA, hope the orbiting

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

Iran to launch research satellite into space: report

TEHRAN, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Iran is going to launch domestically- built Navid satellite by Safir satellite launcher by the end of March 2012, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Sunday. Navid (promise) is a research satellite and is current