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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. From Asia to Europe to North America, poor air quality is making people sick and, in some cases, killing them at an early age. Air pollution causes six million premature deaths every yea

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SSS 2008-11-18

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. In theory, scientists could learn a lot about our health by testing tiny amounts of bodily fluidsa drop of blood, a tear, a bead of sweat. But somethin

SSS 2008-02-04

This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Chelsea Wald. Got a minute? Vinaigrette dressing: when you shake it little vinegar droplets scatter through the oil, but when you put it down, the droplets merge and the dressing separates. That's

SSS 2009-07-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin . This will just take a minute. When you get caught in a downpour, you probably dont think about the size of the raindrops that assault you as you run for cover. But physicists do. And

SSS 2009-04-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The common method of closing a surgical incision is simply to stitch the patient up. There are some issues, though. Good stitching can be challenging,

SSS 2009-06-15

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Could it be that our understanding of rain was all wet? A new study says that some drops of rain are falling faster than they should be. Which ultimately means that it m

SSS 2010-01-12

If youve ever had a garden or grown flowers in a window box, youve probably heard that you shouldnt water your plants at high noon because their leaves might scorch. Now a study in a journal called New Phytologist confirms that water droplets can foc

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The price of oil has dropped around 20 percent in recent weeks, but remains more than double what it was just a couple of years ago. The high price has given oil companies the incentive to revisit old fields long ago abandoned as unprofitable. As VO

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists continue to look for ways to deal with the deadly form of bird flu virus. Medical workers care for a bird flu patient in Medan, Indonesia, last year Researchers in Singapore, for example, hav

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For the first time, all of the underwater video taken during the Gulf oil spill will be available, online, to the public. Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana is hoping those videos will help experts be better prepared for future disasters. O

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On May 29, the Chinese public was put on alert by a notice issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission. 5月29日，国家计生委的一条消息让中国民众警觉起来。 It was about Chinas first case of Middle East respirator

CNN 2008-05-14

Special Thanks to Nativespeaker and jacobs613 Good afternoon from the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Raggie Aqui. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. China says it's going to welcome international aid, but for now, relief workers from oth

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Amazing photographs have emerged capturing one of the skys rarer sights a cloud formation known as a fallstreak hole. 这些精彩照片拍下了一种罕见的天象雨幡洞云。 Also known as a hole punch cloud the unusual occurrence, which appea