Six Researchers Who Gave All to Their Work BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. This week, the stories of some medical heroes. (MUSIC) BOB DOUGHTY: At the start of the...
BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists have discovered a Jupiter-sized exoplanet that is completely unbound from a host star, according the scientific journal Nature published Thursday. The research was conducted by astrophysicists from Osaka Univ...
WASHINGTON, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at Brigham and Women 's Hospital (BWH), a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have identified(鉴定) a human lung stem cell that is self-renewing and capable of forming and integrating multiple bi...
LOS ANGELES, March 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers have successfully used certain microbes to produce biofuels(生物燃料), opening a door to developing cheaper green energy. The discovery was made by researchers at the University of California, Los...
Eating your five-a-day? Good for you. But are they the right five-a-day? 你有坚持每日五蔬果么?虽然那的确有益健康,但是,你的果蔬选择是否正确呢? Researchers say we should ditch carrots and oranges and buy some swe...
Recently, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology's Institute have developped a robotic platform consisting of multiple single-propeller machines that autonomously dock with each other and take flight. Each vehicle is simply designed...
Dentists and researchers have come up with the formula for the perfect smile, from the size and width of each tooth to the curve, colour and shape of the teeth, and the overall width of the smile. 牙医和研究学者已经研究出完美笑容秘诀,...
If you woke up this morning thinking the toughest day of the week had been and gone, you were wrong. Mondays may have long been thought of as miserable, but were more likely to feel down in the dumps on a Tuesday. According to researchers from the Lo...
Researchers have discovered a gene linked to stuttering, a speech disorder that afflicts an estimated one million adults worldwide. Scientists believe the finding raises hope that a drug might someday be developed to treat this disabling condition. R...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. You could fill a store with all the energy drinks now available. They promise to make people feel more energetic and think more clearly. These products have names like Red Bull, Monster, Ripped Force, S...