Legal scholars in Senegal have a new website that makes the country's laws more accessible and gives Senegalese lawyers an opportunity to contribute their own research. The website is the brainchild of a U.S. law professor. Tracy Bach, a professor at...
African sleeping sickness affects mostly rural people in 36 sub-Saharan countries. The World Health Organization says there are currently an estimated 30,000 cases. Left untreated, it is fatal. Sleeping sickness is caused by a parasite that is transm...
An international team of scientists at a U.S. university is investigating whether 'cooking' cancerous tumors using tiny nanoparticles in a magnetic field might be an effective and useful treatment. Preliminary findings suggest they may be on the righ...
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. Today we begin the first of two programs about classical music composers at work today in the United States. Some continue the traditions of Europea...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? Mosquitoes have an unwitting new ally in the war on infectious diseasesconservationists. Turns out that, for mosquitoes carrying dengue-fever, environmentally consci...