VOA慢速英语2011--Scientists Search for the Lost City of A

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VOA标准英语2011--Student Architects Shine in Solar Energy

Student Architects Shine in Solar Energy Contest Dreams and designs of young architects are shining brightly in Washington at the bi-annual Solar Decathlon. They have come from around the world, college students combining their education with their i

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By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 14 February 2007 watch Heart Disease in Women Figures from the World Health Organization show that 17 million people die of cardiovascular disease each year. Symptoms for heart disease in men and women often vary. But

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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

VOA慢速英语2011--NASA’s Aquarius Satellite Will Help Sc

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VOA标准英语2012--Bird Counts Show Species Decreasing

Bird Counts Show Species Decreasing Huntley Meadows Park in Fairfax County, Virginia, is home to a wide variety of birds. That's where Ana Arguelles and her husband, Jeff Wneck, who live next to the 588-hectare wetlands, take part in the annual count

VOA标准英语2012--Students Learn Lesson in Power of Giving

Students Learn Lesson in Power of Giving On the 15th of each month, a classroom at Pointers Run Elementary School in Maryland, is abuzz with volunteers. Students like Campbell Snoddy collect food that has been donated by students, parents and teacher

VOA标准英语2011--Social Scientists Rethink Role of City

Social Scientists Rethink Role of City Big cities are vibrant hubs for culture and industry, or dirty, congested, impersonal crime-ridden warrens. As the world population surpasses seven billion, economists, environmentalists and social scientists ar

VOA标准英语2011--Egypt to Form New Government, Military to Transfer Power

Egypt to Form New Government, Military to Transfer Power Egypt's military rulers have agreed to form a new government and promise to transfer power to a civilian body by July. Politicians say the agreement was made during a crisis meeting on Tuesday

VOA标准英语2012--Obama Hosts Top Teenage Scientists

Obama Hosts Top Teenage Scientists Fourteen-year-old business owner Joe Hudy and one of his inventions, a compressed air cannon that shoots marshmallows, attracted President Obamas attention at the White House Science Fair. The president invited Joe

VOA标准英语2012--Government, Private Groups Active in Stricken New Jersey Cities

Government, Private Groups Active in Stricken New Jersey Cities The racket of gasoline-powered generators and the smell of water-soaked trash piled on sidewalks now define life in Hoboken. Some stores and restaurants are open along the main avenues w

VOA标准英语2011--Scientists Infect Mosquitoes to Stop Den

Scientists Infect Mosquitoes to Stop Dengue Australian researchers report success in attacking the insects that carry the dengue virus, a rarely fatal disease that nonetheless takes a huge toll in sickness and economic loss in the tropical areas wher

VOA标准英语2011--Scientists Target Mosquito-Borne Illness

Scientists Target Mosquito-Borne Illnesses Of all the disease-spreading insects in the world, the mosquito poses the greatest menace, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). As if to underscore that threat, two mosquito-borne viral diseases

ENVIRONMENT REPORT - Yucca Mountain

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HEALTH REPORT - Scientists Find New Clue about Acupuncture

HEALTH REPORT - Scientists Find New Clue about Acupuncture By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A Chinese book on the ancient practice

Scientists decode Black Death's genome

BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists have decoded the genome of Black Death which caused one of the worst plagues in human history. The finding was published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature. A team of German, Canadian and American sc

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Scientists have determined it's not advisable to hurry marriage. Get the scoop on the best age to be wed. 科学家们建议，结婚也不可以操之过急。现在，让我们对应该何时结婚来探个究竟吧。 We doubt you were shocked whe

身材越好 头脑越聪明?

If you want to boost your childs results at school, you could do a lot worse than ensuring that they do plenty of exercise. Scientists have already shown that physical activity can make you brainier. But a team in America has used scans to show that

Scientists find neural stem cell regulator

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at the University of Colorado (CU) have found that lack of a specific gene interrupts neural tube closure, a condition that can cause death or paralysis. The study was the cover story this week in the jour