New Rulers Bring Royal Family Closer to Ordinary Japanese Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are bringing changes to one of the worlds oldest royal families. The two have spoken with foreign visitors in English. They laugh with children and...
Indonesia Blames Boeing Design, Other Problems for Deadly Lion Air Crash Indonesian investigators say a combination of design problems and other issues were to blame for a Boeing 737 Max 8 jet crashing shortly after it left Jakarta last year. The inv...
New York City will finally honor real women with a statue in its famous Central Park. City officials voted this week for the creation of a statue of three female civil rights leaders. Central Park has 23 statues of men who were important in history,...
Before we begin our story, let us go back 300 years to the late 1600s. In those years, one of the most famous men in the world was Captain William Kidd. Captain Kidd was a pirate. He sailed the seas, capturing any ships he found. He and his men took...
Today we answer a question from Sandra M. Question: She writes, Hello! Could you tell me, please, what the difference is between 'each' and 'every Which option is correct: each cell or every cell? Answer: Dear Sandra, Thank you for writing to us. Yes...
Public Might Not Know about Attacks on US Election Systems It is no secret that foreign computer hackers are targeting election systems in the United States. 外国计算机黑客正在瞄准美国的选举系统，这不是什么秘密。 Government...
The United States space agency NASA is considering models of future living spaces for astronauts exploring the moon and Mars. A group of NASA officials and veteran astronauts has examined five working models of space habitats. Private companies devel...
Google Claims Major Breakthrough in Quantum Computing Google says it has reached a major breakthrough in quantum computing research. 谷歌声称在量子计算研究方面取得了重大突破。 Scientists reported Wednesday in the publication Natu...
Google Launches New Pixel Phone with Motion Sensing Technology Google has released new Pixel smartphones that have motion sensing technology. 谷歌发布了搭载动作感应技术的全新Pixel智能手机。 At an event in New York City on Tuesday...
How Fast Can You Write on Your Smartphone? Many Americans use smartphones for most or all of their day-to-day communication activities. One result is that people have gotten faster and better at typing emails and text messages on their phones. But ho...
Climate Change Threatens Scottish Historical Treasures Historians are warning that some ancient British structures are being threatened by climate change. One of the most affected places is around the Orkney Islands, which are off the northern coast...
Rebuilding Forests Help Climate, Habitats Forests can be destroyed quickly. Regrowth happens much, much slower. But around the world, people are working to help it happen. In the Peruvian Amazon, illegal gold mining damaged forests and poisoned the g...
Scientists Have Discovered Stormquakes. What Are They? Scientists say they have discovered an earthquake-like event that can happen during a hurricane or other powerful ocean storms. They are calling it a stormquake. Researchers came up with this nam...
Northern Fur Seal Population Growing in Unlikely Place For 30 years, Alaskas northern fur seal population has not increased. But the ocean mammals are appearing in growing numbers in one unlikely place -- a small island that forms the tip of an activ...
The planet Saturn is being recognized as the moon king of our solar system. Jupiter used to hold the record for most moons orbiting around it. It has 79. But scientists in the United States have announced the discovery of 20 new moons around Saturn....
