Boston Dynamics is an American technology company that has developed a series of robots designed to move in ways similar to humans and animals. The company has spent years building robots with useful abilities like walking, moving through rough terra...
Fast-spreading Coronavirus Variants Raise Concerns Worldwide coronavirus cases passed 100 million Wednesday as countries struggle with new variants of the virus and a limited supply of vaccine. The worst-affected countries include the United States,...
A woman in the Netherlands was unhappy that a king is more valuable than a queen in a deck of playing cards. Indy Mellink, 23, went to school to study psychology. She wondered if that situation could be changed. She said rating a male higher than a f...
Several Vietnamese news organizations first reported that Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong had been nominated for an unusual third term Wednesday. Then they quickly changed the stories to say the party has introduced several special cases for r...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese organizers are set to publish a rulebook for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games. 国际奥委会和日本组委会将为即将到来的东京奥运会发布一本规章手册。 The book will be re...
New research suggests Earth's ice is melting faster today than in the 1990s. An estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world's sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the middle of the 1990s. The yearly melt rate is now abo...
New research suggests Earth's ice is melting faster today than in the 1990s. An estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world's sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the middle of the 1990s. The yearly melt rate is now abo...
German researchers have found a way to regrow nerves of mice that could not walk, permitting them to walk again. The mice had been paralyzed because of injuries to their spinal cords. The researchers used a designer protein injected into the brain. I...
Tips for Better Conversations in English at Work When we are learning a new language, carrying on a conversation can be difficult. It is even harder when there is the added pressure of doing a job well using the new language. One of our readers, Emre...
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden made two important additions to the White House over the weekend: their dogs. 总统乔拜登和第一夫人吉尔拜登周末给白宫新添了两个重要角色：他们的狗。 German shepherds Champ...
The U.S. government has approved the first long-acting drug combination treatment for HIV, the virus responsible for the disease AIDS. The treatment was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week. It involves monthly injections to r...
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. The coronavirus pandemic shows no signs of slowing down in many places around the world. So, many people who usually work in offices continue to work from home. For some of them, working...
Animal biologists in the U.S. state of Wyoming recently confirmed the death of the oldest-known grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. Grizzly is another name for the North American brown bear. This bear was 34 years old. Most male bears do not l...
Newly confirmed U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin faces a world of security threats and a large military bureaucracy. The first Black defense leader also faces another problem in the military: removing racism and extremism among soldiers. Austin ta...
The Monarch Butterfly Population Is in Danger of Disappearing The warm coast of California is a place where many western monarch butterflies stay during the cold winter months in the United States. Researchers fear the record low number of monarchs t...
