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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Venus Transits Sun for Last Time This Century JUNE SIMMS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith. Today, we tell about the planet Venus and what the American
Rare Astronomical Event to Occur June 5-6 Skywatchers on all seven continents will get a chance to witness an astronomical rarity on June 5 or 6, the transit of the planet Venus. It is likely the last time anyone alive today will have a chance to vie
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Stand Clear Of The Doors: TV Finally Gets On Board With Mass Transit play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:47repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your F
Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike Marge: Where have you been? You should have been home over two hours ago! Homer: Ive been trying to get home. Havent you been watching the news? The transportation workers union has voted to strike. There was a mass
A gunman in Texas shot and killed 26 people in a church in the small community of Southerland Springs, Texas on Sunday. At least 20 people were injured in the shooting. Victims included children and the elderly. The suspected gunman is also dead. The
Mass School Shootings Mostly in Small US Towns In the United States, mass school shootings are most likely to happen in small towns and suburban areas. One example is the shooting last week at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas. Ten people died in the
This is Scientific Americans 60 second science, I am John Matson. Were just hours away from the last transit of Venus until the year 2117. A transit is when a planet passes in front of the sun, revealing itself as a tiny black dot on the suns face. T
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 01 August 2007 Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas monopoly, has announced a 45 percent reduction of natural gas supplies to neighboring Belarus. About 20 percent of the gas Russia delivers to other European countries transits
A senior U.N. official says heavy trafficking of narcotics through West Africa into Europe is threatening the lives, livelihoods and stability of the region. The official says the problem of drug trafficking is competing with humanitarian and develo
NASA Satellite Offers Astonishing View of Venus Transit Skygazers massed outside the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the U.S capital, eager to see the rare transit of Venus. The museum offered telescopes. People donned special protective
DAVID GREENE, HOST: We now know that the man who killed 26 people in a tiny Texas church on Sunday had been court-martialed and discharged from the Air Force for assaulting his wife and child. And authorities say that Devin Patrick Kelley sent threat
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: In Thousand Oaks, Calif., Wednesday, 12 people were killed in a Western-themed bar before the shooter is believed to have turned the gun on himself. It has become an all-too-common scene. According to Gun Violence Archive, an ind
Soon afterward, Maskelyne returned to England where he became astronomer royal, and Mason and Dixonnow evidently more seasonedset off for four long and often perilous years surveying their way through 244 miles of dangerous American wilderness to set
At his urging, the Royal Society agreed to engage a reliable figure to tour the British Isles to see if such a mountain could be found. Maskelyne knew just such a personthe astronomer and surveyor Charles Mason. Maskelyne and Mason had become friends
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 11 September 2006 Federal workers in Nigerian are bracing themselves for mass layoffs following a weekend announcement that some 15,000 workers are to be let go this month. Union officials are reacting angrily to the plan a
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 20 April 2008 Pope Benedict XVI ended his six-day visit to the United States with a jubilant mass at the 57,000-seat Yankee Stadium. From VOA's New York Bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau reports the leader of the w
China opposes proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: FM spokesman BEIJING, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- China opposes the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei reiterated at a regu
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- A team of researchers has discovered a planet that orbits around a pair of stars, the U.S. space agency NASA announced Thursday. This is the first instance of astronomers finding direct evidence of a so-called circumb
A mass rally and parade has been held in DPRK's capital a day after the Worker's Party wrapped up its first congress in 36 years. Hundreds of thousands of people were seen marching through the main ceremonial square. Participants in Pyongyang practic