The Chair is a new program about life at an American university that might be of interest to foreign students coming to the United States. The main actor in the show is Sandra Oh. In The Chair, Oh plays Ji-Yoon Kim, an English professor at a fictiona...
A Leopard Doesn't Change Its Spots And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Today we talk about change. The world changes. Situations change. But what about people? Do we ever really change? To answer this, we turn to the animal w...
A group of small robots are helping speed up mail delivery service in Greece's capital city of Athens. 一批小型机器人正在帮助加速希腊首都雅典的邮件递送服务。 Fifty-five, four-wheeled autonomous mobile robots are working in...
Zimbabwe is requiring its 500,000 government employees and several other groups to get vaccinated against COVID-19. This sets the southern African nation apart from nearly every other in Africa. Many African countries are having difficulties in getti...
Most people would not think of friendship and cooperation when considering the animals called vampire bats. But experts say maybe we should. New research shows that vampire bats have deeper social relationships with one another than scientists had th...
A Russian actor and film director left Earth on a spaceship this week to start filming a movie. Russian officials said the movie will shine a light on Russia's success in space. 一名俄罗斯演员和电影导演本周搭乘宇宙飞船离开地球开...
Reporters Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The two won the prize for their fight for freedom of expression in countries where journalists have faced continuing pressure, attacks and...
Hello! This week we answer a question from Umut in Turkey. Question: I would like to learn the difference between each other and one another. Thanks in advance. Umut, Turkey. Answer: Dear Umut, Thank you for writing to us. The pronoun each other mean...
The African Union's top health official wants to get the world's first approved malaria vaccine to African countries as soon as possible. 非盟最高卫生官员希望尽快向非洲国家提供首款获得批准的疟疾疫苗。 This comes one day...
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his writing on the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee, the award-giving body said on Thursday. Born in 1948 on the island of Zanzibar, now part of Ta...
The recent oil spill off the California coast has environmental activists once again asking for a ban on drilling. While new oil drilling leases have not been given for about 50 years, a large number of existing wells are still being used. In additio...
Imagine you want to describe your day. Perhaps you have an English test that asks about what you do regularly. Or maybe you just want to tell a friend about your day's activities. In this Everyday Grammar, we will explore how you can describe the mid...
Millions of Africas Internet Addresses Stolen Industrialized nations have long used Africa to make money, enslaving its people and mining its gold and diamonds. Digital resources are proving no different. Millions of internet IP addresses given to Af...
American President Joe Biden again asked Congress to lift the United States debt limit after a meeting Wednesday with the nation's business leaders. The White House Council of Economic Advisors warned before the meeting that the United States governm...
Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a molecule-building tool that can produce many important compounds in a greener way. 两位科学家因开发出一种分子构建工具而获得诺贝尔化学奖，该工具可以以...
