The U.S. military has chosen three companies to develop nuclear thermal propulsion, or NTP systems to be tested in space by 2025. The goal is to test the space travel technology in cislunar space the area between Earth and the moon. What is NTP? The...
Last month, a Singapore investor bought a digital artwork for $69 million. Since the art does not have a physical form, it cannot appear in a usual museum. The artwork is Everydays: The First 5000 Days, by the American artist Beeple. It is a non-fung...
When the coronavirus pandemic began last year, Carolina Tolladay Vidal's party business suffered immediately. People cancelled parties and no one was buying pinatas from her business in the American state of Alaska. A pinata is a container usually fi...
Are you interested in a visit to the site of the world's worst nuclear power accident? 你是否有兴趣参观世界上最严重核电站事故的遗址？ The government of Ukraine hopes so. 乌克兰政府希望如此。 The country's culture mini...
Thai Villagers Feel Effects of Mekong River Dams The Mekong River is Southeast Asia's longest, passing through China, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam. But dams have changed the path of the river system. Now there are droughts during the...
Sherlock Holmes is an imaginary private detective created by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 1880s. Doyle's stories about the detective have been turned into movies and television shows. One of Sherlock Holmes' great skills is a powerfu...
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore words and expressions in American English. For half the planet, it is springtime. That means warmer temperatures and new growth on plants and trees. Trees are am...
Rich people from Latin America have been traveling to the United States to get vaccinated against COVID-19. 来自拉丁美洲的富人一直在前往美国接种预防新冠肺炎的疫苗。 Some are flying thousands of kilometers. Some are taking...
A Malaysian farm says it has perfected its methods to successfully grow Japanese muskmelons, one of the world's costliest fruits. 马来西亚一家农场表示，他们已经完善了成功种植日本甜瓜的方法，日本甜瓜是世界上最昂贵...
The daily lives of female religious workers in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, changed quickly in 2020. Increasingly, emails arrived with reports of new coronavirus infections among nuns of their Roman Catholic order Felician Sisters around the country. Em...
The American space agency NASA has collected oxygen from the atmosphere of another planet for the first time. A device on NASA's Mars explorer Perseverance was able to extract oxygen from carbon dioxide on the Red Planet. It was the second major even...
US Restarts Use of Johnson Johnson COVID Vaccine American health officials said Friday that the United States is re-starting the use of the Johnson Johnson coronavirus vaccine. The decision came after a committee of health advisors told the U.S. Cent...
Minari is a vegetable known as Korea's water celery or watercress. It is also the name of a film nominated for a number of Academy Awards, known as Oscars, on Sunday. The film, produced by Christina Oh, received nominations for best picture and best...
We present the third of five parts of the short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue, by Edgar Allen Poe. The story was originally adapted and recorded by VOA Learning English. My housemate in Paris, August Dupin, was an interesting young man with a b...
US Could Consider Protections for Climate Refugees The U.S. government is considering a plan that would offer protections to people coming into the country to flee areas threatened by climate change. No country offers asylum or other legal protection...
