NEW DELHI, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The Indian government has ordered food originating from（发源于） Japan to be tested for radiation in the wake of explosions at a Japanese nuclear plant following a devastating earthquake-tsunami last Friday, repo...
Israeli start-up firm Tawkon has developed software to measure mobile telephone handset radiation(辐射) aimed at helping users reduce exposure（曝光） to emissions without giving up their phones. Tawkon's (pronounced talk-on) application is alr...
DOUG JOHNSON: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Doug Johnson. FAITH LAPIDUS: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Today, we will tell about skin cancer. (MUSIC) DOUG JOHNSON: Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer. It is also...
This is Scientific American's 60 Seconds Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? In 1900 legendary physicist Max Planck described the way energy gets dissipated from any nonreflective object, called a blackbody. But even Max said if something else i...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Animals rely on all sorts of cues to find their next meal. Monkeys and birds are attracted to the colors of ripe fruits and berries. And snakes find thei...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. got a minute? Earth-like planets have the potential to form around manyand perhaps mostof the nearest stars that are like our sun. Michael Meyer of the University of Arizona announced t...
President Obama congratulated Iraqis for coming out to vote in todays parliamentary elections in spite of violence by insurgents that killed at least 38 people. That's the sound of the morning call to prayer during voting this morning at a Baghdad po...
Public opinion polls suggest most Americans favor full body scanners as a way to protect against terror attacks on commercial airliners. The benefits of scanners are being debated in a number of countries. Some groups have raised privacy issues. But...
By Steve Herman Tokyo 07 December 2006 Top-level international health officials say recent outbreaks of bird flu in South Korea emphasize the need for greater preparedness to deal with a potential human influenza pandemic. As Steve Herman reports fr...
By Tom Rivers London 24 November 2006 Calling it unprecedented, a British official says former Russian Spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by radiation. For VOA News, Tom Rivers reports from London. Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB spy and author...
