If you are like over 70 million other people around the world, you may have taken a class with Coursera. Coursera is an online education company that helps create Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller are computer science...
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Colors are often connected to the feelings we have. Many expressions in English link colors and emotions. Take for example, the color green. Green can be a symbol for many things. In other...
A hotel that calls itself the world's first polar bear hotel has opened in northeastern China. The Polar Bear Hotel is part of the Harbin Polarland amusement park in Harbin, the capital and largest city in Heilongjiang province. It opened earlier thi...
It is a year of diversity and firsts for Oscar nominations. The Oscars given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are widely considered the top awards for Hollywood and the movie industry worldwide. This week, the academy honored two wo...
'To Build a Fire,' by Jack London Our story today is called To Build a Fire. It was written by Jack London and adapted by Dona de Sanctis. Here is Harry Monroe with the story. **Editor's note: The towns named in this story are in Canada's Yukon Terri...
The large college basketball tournament in the U.S., known as March Madness begins this week. The men's tournament is being held in the state of Indiana and the women's tournament is in Texas. 美国被称为疯狂三月的大型大学篮球锦标赛将...
This week, we answer a question from a reader about the many words used for different kinds of roads. Here's the question: Question: What are the differences between avenues, roads, streets, lanes, drives, ways, trails, boulevards and highways? -An E...
The European Unions drug control agency says the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is safe. 欧盟的药品管制机构表示，阿斯利康公司的新冠疫苗是安全的。 The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Thursday announced its findings from an...
Additional booster vaccines against the coronavirus will be needed in the future, said a leading British scientist who is studying the virus. A booster is an extra shot that increases or renews the effect of an earlier vaccine. Boosters will be neede...
Los Angeles Opens Its First Tiny Home Village for Homeless Amy Skinner watched as workers began building tiny colorful structures across from a park where she sometimes slept in North Hollywood. Tiny homes are being used for housing in costly areas o...
In Japan, some workers who regularly drink beer at the end of the day are giving their livers a rest and turning to beer that is free, or nearly free, of alcohol. Because of the coronavirus health crisis, many Japanese people are not doing the things...
In a recent Everyday Grammar, we briefly talked about a video that makes fun of the difference between two terms: y'all and you guys. It goes like this: Hey you guys, what are you all looking at? In today's report, we will explore this issue in more...
In science fiction movies, there are many examples of spaceships racing through space at the speed of light or faster. But is faster-than-light travel possible? 在科幻电影中，有许多飞船以光速或更快速度在太空中快速移动的例子...
Israeli archaeologists said they have discovered about 80 new pieces of ancient writings known as Dead Sea Scrolls in a desert cave south of Jerusalem. The writings are the first new scrolls to be found in 60 years. The writings are religious in natu...
Welcome to Happy Cork! That is how Sunshine Foss welcomes people into her wine store in Brooklyn, New York. She opened the store in 2018. Today, Foss is one of a growing number of Black people in the wine industry. She said she speaks with Black wine...
