Smallest Rubiks Cube Ever Goes on Sale in Japan An extremely small Rubik's Cube has gone on sale in Japan for 198,000 yen, or about $1,900. 日本推出款非常小的魔方，售价为19.8万日元（约合1900美元）。 Advertised as a super-smal...
This week, researchers released a report on LGBTQ+ students at schools in the United States. It found that almost all LGBTQ+ students who were questioned reported hearing offensive comments about their sexuality or gender identity. The GLSEN 2019 Nat...
Prague Restaurant Creates Coronavirus-Shaped Dessert A restaurant in Prague, Czech Republic has invented a sweet treat shaped like the new coronavirus. The cake is an attempt to increase business -- and it is already popular with diners. The Black Ma...
Visitors to Rome can now see one of the most important private collections of ancient Greek and Roman marble sculptures. 罗马游客现在可以看到古希腊和罗马大理石雕塑中最重要的一批私人收藏品。 The 90 works from the Torl...
Hard Nuts to Crack Now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. During autumn in many parts of the United States, you can watch squirrels gathering nuts for the winter. The squirrel puts the nut in its mouth, runs to a place it considers s...
Mexico Experts Find 2,000 Ruin Sites near Maya Train Route Experts in Mexico said Wednesday they have found more than 2,000 pre-Hispanic ruins along the proposed path of the president's Maya Train project on the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists discover...
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the world's first treatment for the deadly Ebola virus. 美国食品和药品管理局已经批准了全球第一种针对致命埃博拉病毒的疗法。 The treatment, Inmazeb, is a...
The New York Philharmonic made the historic decision this week to cancel its entire performance season. The president of the famed symphony orchestra Deborah Borda said on Tuesday that it had lost a combined $30 million in ticket sales for this seaso...
The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne Our story today is called The Birthmark. It was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Here is Barbara Klein with the story. A long time ago, there lived a skillful scientist who had experienced a spiritual reaction more...
Finland Uses Dogs to Find Coronavirus Infections Finland has deployed dogs trained to smell the coronavirus at the country's main international airport. 芬兰在该国主要国际机场部署了经过训练可嗅到冠状病毒的嗅探犬。 A tria...
Three Scientists Win Nobel Physics Prize for Black Hole Research Three scientists have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for their discoveries related to massive objects called black holes. 三位科学家因为研究超大质量物体黑洞的研究...
The story is called A Brooklyn Christmas. It is about Christmas in the Brooklyn part of New York City in the early 1900s. It was written by Betty Smith. K.Glat is the story teller. Christmas was a wonderful time in Brooklyn. But holiday was in the ai...
US Company Shows Off New Supersonic Test Aircraft An American startup company recently gave reporters a chance to see its first demonstrator aircraft, which is set to begin flight testing next year. 一家美国创业公司最近向记者展示了其首...
The Smithsonian National Zoo has confirmed that its six-week old giant panda is a male. 美国史密森尼国家动物园证实，六周大的大熊猫幼崽为雄性。 he finding was announced on a zoo video earlier this week. Panda-keepers showed...
The website Dictionary.com has chosen the term 'misinformation' as its word of the year. The announcement comes less than two weeks after Oxford Dictionaries chose 'toxic' as its word of the year. Dictionary.com网站将misinformation一词选为了网...
