Some University Students Want Schools to Return Their Money They wanted to experience college life, but their universities sent them home to learn from online classes during the coronavirus crisis. Now, students across the United States are taking le...
Doctors Warn of Illness Possibly Linked to Coronavirus in Children Doctors in Britain, Italy and Spain have been warned to look out for a rare inflammatory condition in children. The condition is possibly linked to the new coronavirus. Earlier this w...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. In December nineteen forty-one, the United States was at war. It declared war against Japan after Japanese planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Ha...
apanese Aquarium Seeks People to FaceTime with Sea Creatures A Japanese aquarium that has closed because of the coronavirus outbreak is asking people to make video calls to the aquarium's eels. The reason? Aquarium workers fear the sensitive creature...
Medical Workers Risk Lives at Work, Face Attacks on the Way Home Every night at seven o'clock, New Yorkers step outside their homes to cheer for the medical workers who are treating coronavirus patients. Horns from automobiles and police vehicles add...
Hairstylist Provides Free Haircuts to Thai Health Workers Thai hairstylist Pornsupa Hattayong is making medical workers fighting the new coronavirus feel just a little better. She is providing free haircuts for them at hospitals in Bangkok. Pornsupa...
An American high school student has named the first helicopter to be sent to Mars. Ingenuity was the name chosen by the U.S. space agency NASA in a competition involving thousands of students across America. The name was suggested by Vaneeza Rupani,...
Researchers have used high technology methods to learn secrets about a famous painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The painting is called Girl with a Pearl Earring. Vermeer is considered one of the masters of his art. He worked during the...
Editor's note: This is the fourth in our series of programs called A Princess of Mars. The story is from a series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Last week, we told how John Carter observed a fierce battle between the green Martians and a race of r...
After 100 Years, Victory Gardens Connect Americans Again During World War I, posters saying Food will win the war urged Americans to grow their own food in what became known as victory gardens. More than 100 years later, home gardeners are returning...
