Scientists, Regulators Look to Save Smaller Fish in Marine Food Chain Perhaps you've had salmon, tuna, or swordfish for dinner recently. Or maybe it's on the menu tonight. Every big fish that lands on your plate got that big by eating lots of little...
[00:09.95]Six weeks ago, the movie Erin Brockovich opened the United States. [00:16.95]So far, it has earned at least 100,000,000 dollars. [00:22.47]It tells a true story about a young woman who helped people in a California town gain money from an e...
BOB DOUGHTY:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. Today, we tell about efforts by American scientists to communicate with dolphins. We also tell about applications programs for compu...
The United Nations chose the theme of women and science education for this year's International Women's Day to highlight the gender gap in many parts of the world between the number of men and women scientists. Yanti, a scientist developing new chemi...
Have you ever wondered how those hard-shelled mollusks known as mussels anchor themselves to rocks on lake and river bottoms? How they stick to sea walls, or resist pounding waves? Scientists at the University of Chicago have done more than come up w...
STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about an American spacecraft that has a date with a comet. We hear the latest about a Space Shuttle commander whose wife co...
In 2017, European scientists plan to go on a very special space mission - landing on an asteroid. But why do they want to visit an asteroid and will there be space for Callum on the spacecraft?! 欧洲科学家计划于 2017 年进行一次航空任务 - 降落在小行...
Scientists in Los Angeles have uncovered a treasure trove of Ice Age animal bones, including the nearly complete fossil of a huge Columbian mammoth. The discovery at the La Brea Tar Pits should reveal more about life in the region up to 40,000 years...
