Scientist to Sequence Genes in Space 科学家在空间站研究基因序列 On Earth, American astronaut Kate Rubins researched some of the deadliest diseases like Ebola. Now, while orbiting the planet in the International Space Station, she will be...
AS IT IS 2016-08-08 When It Rains, Make Beer 酿酒厂收集雨水酿啤酒 There is a saying that advises when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. In other words, make the best out of a bad situation. 有一句俗话：如果生活给了你柠檬，...
AS IT IS 2016-08-08 New Company Plans Very Small Electronic Medical Treatments 新公司将开发小型电子医疗方法 A new company has been created to research and develop medical treatments using bioelectronics. 一家新成立的公司旨在利用...
AS IT IS 2016-08-08 Football Player's Non-Profit Supports Start-ups in Africa 足球员创办的非营利组织在非洲支持初创企业 While recovering from a football injury, an American college student named John Cefalu decided to use his free...
AS IT IS 2016-08-08 US May Reach Goal of Accepting 10,000 Syrian Refugees 美国即将实现接收一万名难民的目标 The United States is working to reach its goal of bringing 10,000 Syrian refugees to the country by the end of September. There...
Tell Them You 'Heard it Through the Grapevine' Hello and welcome to another episodes of Words and Their Stories, a VOA Learning English program. Each week we explore the stories behind common American words and expressions. We try to give you useful...
Who Are the Libertarian and Green Party Presidential Candidates? Most attention in the U.S. presidential race is going to Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. But two other candidates Libertarian Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Gr...
College Students with Children Work Hard to Succeed Nearly 5 million undergraduate students in the U.S. are parents. Their path is not easy. In addition to the demands of school, student-parents face the high cost of childcare and the stress of worki...
AS IT IS 2016-08-07 More Than a Place, Silicon Valley Is a Culture 硅谷不仅仅是一个地方更是一种文化 Monisha Perkash and her parents moved to the United States from Nepal. She never imagined that one day she would be heading a company...
AS IT IS 2016-08-07 Ivory Coast Hopes to Increase its Chocolate Production 科特迪瓦欲增加巧克力产量 Ivory Coast is the world's top producer of cocoa. Cocoa beans are used to make chocolate. But, little chocolate is produced in the West Af...
US Women's Basketball Team Aims for More Olympic Gold 美国女子篮球队：剑指冠军 At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the U.S. womens basketball team will work to win a sixth gold medal. The U.S. team has won the championship at every su...
Rocky Mountain National Park: Wild and Wonderful Our national parks journey this week takes us to an extreme landscape in Colorado. Around us are clear lakes, aspen and fir trees, and mountain peaks that rise over 4,400 meters. Welcome to Rocky Mount...
'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' by Ambrose Bierce 鹰溪桥上 by 安布鲁斯布尔斯 Our story today is called, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. It was written by Ambrose Bierce. The occurrence, or event, in our story takes place during the...
AS IT IS 2016-08-06 Sasha Obama Has a Summer Job 奥巴马小女儿暑假餐厅打工 This is Whats Trending Today: No summer beach vacation in the northeast U.S. state of Massachusetts is complete without an order of fried clams at a seaside restaur...
AS IT IS 2016-08-06 How Safe are U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Turkey? 美国存放土耳其的核武是否安全 Military and political experts are warning the United States against storing nuclear weapons in Turkey. Those experts say the recent attempt t...
