STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Next, we're going to tune into the radio, as heard in Syria. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: (Foreign language spoken) INSKEEP: It's Radio Watan. It's an opposition news source heard in parts of that country. Instead of being run by Syria...
Why? Why? is a question that parents ask me all the time. Why did my child develop autism? As a pediatrician, as a geneticist, as a researcher, we try and address that question. But autism is not a single condition. It's actually a spectrum of disord...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a new religious statue in the town of Davidson, N.C., that's unlike anything you might see in a church. It depicts Jesus as a vagrant sleeping on a park bench. A few residents have complained, but most find the statue spi...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. A German-based group called PediaPress is trying to raise enough money to do the impossible. They want to print a copy of Wikipedia - yep, a print version of the constantl...
When I was born, there was really only one book about how to raise your children, and it was written by Dr. Spock. (Laughter) Thank you for indulging me. I have always wanted to do that. No, it was Benjamin Spock, and his book was called The Common S...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It has been three years since India recorded at its last polio case. This achievement means the country can now be declared officially polio-free, a feat many health leaders felt was impossible just a decade ago. As NPR's Michael...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: OK, here's a question. If a tree falls in the forest and someone records it, does the sound last forever? We are increasingly finding out that the answer is no. Fragile records from the 1940s are breaking, cassette tapes from the...
From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. Today, we tell about an American farmer and an unusual device he developed. For 20 years, people around the world have been buying his invention. Blake Whisenant and his family are farmers. They...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Raising kids is hard. It just is. And there's a whole industry out there trying to help parents figure out how to do it. All kinds of books on the very basics - sleeping, eating and talking - to those that deal with more complica...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Twenty years ago today, shots rang out in a poor neighborhood in Tijuana. That sound reverberated throughout Mexico. The victim was the man hand-picked by the country's dominant ruling party to win the country's presidential elec...
On some French trains, the conductor's whistle signals more than just a departure. For commuters traveling on an express train from Reims to Paris a 90-mile, 45-minute ride it means the beginning of English class. Before the course, we were sleeping...
Welcome to VOA Learning English. This is As It Is! Im Anna Matteo. On todays show we will talk about wait a minute. What was I going to talk about? I was just about to say oh, yes memory! When we are young, we expect to remember things easily. But as...
The advances that have taken place in astronomy, cosmology and biology, in the last 10 years, are really extraordinary -- to the point where we know more about our universe and how it works than many of you might imagine. But there was something else...
Charlie Rose: So Larry sent me an email and he basically said, we've got to make sure that we don't seem like we're a couple of middle-aged boring men. I said, I'm flattered by that -- (Laughter) because I'm a bit older, and he has a bit more net wor...
Scientists are usually portrayed as highly rational seekers of the truth - and they are that. But they also have qualities that make them more similar to you and me than you might think. NPR's Joe Palca has a story that reveals that quite dramaticall...
