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VOA News The Historic Flight of the Dragon
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Space Explorations Technologies, or Space X, may be a company to watch in the coming years. On Tuesday, May twenty-second, Space X successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The privately-built and owned Dragon spacecraft was loaded with more than five hundred kilograms of supplies for the International Space Station. The Dragon linked up wit...
VOA News IBM Thinks Minds Will Control Machines Within 5 Years
Controlling a device with your mind. Powering your home with the energy of your own activities. These are two of the developments that experts at IBM think will become reality within the next five years. The technology company has released its latest "5 in 5" report. The experts think people will soon be able to control many electronic devices simply by using their minds. Scientists at IBM and other companies are researching ways to do this in a field of science known as bioinformatics. They say...
VOA News Using the Brain to Move a Robotic Arm
This is the Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Cathy Hutchinson is a tetraplegic. She has not been able to move her arms, legs or speak since suffering a stroke nearly fifteen years ago. Recently, she learned how to control a robotic arm using her thoughts. She now can use brain activity to serve herself a drink.The American woman is one of two people who took part in a research project known as BrainGate2. The researcher...
VOA News New Effort to Fight 10 'Neglected' Tropical Diseases
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A new campaign aims to fight ten diseases that affect many of the world's poorest people but do not get much attention. At the end of January officials announced the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases. The diseases include conditions like sleeping sickness, guinea worm and leprosy. They affect more than a billion people worldwide. The effort involves thirteen d...
VOA News Apple in Legal Battle Over iPad Name in China
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Apple sold over fifteen million iPads just in the final three months of twenty-eleven. Now the popular tablet computer is in its third generation. But as Apple prepared to launch a new iPad on March seventh, it faced legal challenges in China over rights to the name of the device. A court in Guangdong province heard a case brought by the Chinese company Proview Technology...
VOA News Aviation Industry Looking to Change Safety Standards, Tracking Technology
Aviation Industry Looking to Change Safety Standards, Tracking Technology Underwater tracking devices were put to use more frequently than usual in 2014, looking for downed airplanes in the sea. Two of the aircraft are still missing — Malaysia Airlines Flight 370... From: VOAvideo Views: 91 2 ratings Time: 02:38 More in News & Politics 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEjp2Dp1SDo&feature=youtube_gdata
VOA News New Findings on Sleep in Children, Older Adults
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish "Sleep-disordered breathing" is a term for a group of conditions that can interfere with normal breathing while people sleep. These include snoring, mouth-breathing and sleep apnea. Sleep-disordered breathing can do more than just leave people feeling tired the next day. It can also affect people's health. In children the effects can include behavioral and emotional problems....
VOA News Facebook Stock Goes on Sale
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Facebook is the world's biggest social network. It has over nine hundred million users worldwide. And it reported $3.7 billion in sales for last year. The company has been privately held since two thousand four. That was when Mark Zuckerberg and several classmates at Harvard University started Facebook as a business. But on May eighteenth, Facebook becomes a publicly trade...
VOA News Learning History at Birmingham's Civil Rights Institute
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Birmingham, Alabama, was a battleground in the early 1960s during the civil rights movement. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and others led peaceful protests in support of equal rights for African-Americans. But some protests turned violent when police attacked the demonstrators. Many people were hurt. Thousands were arrested. The pictures helped create support for an end to racial discrimination. Almost 50 years late...
VOA News A Campaign Against Alzheimer's Disease
This is the VOA Special English Health Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The United States government recently announced a major education and research campaign against Alzheimer's disease. The brain-wasting disease has no cure. The plan includes more efforts to develop drugs to prevent it. In the United States, more than five million people have Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia. As the population gets older, the number is expected to r...
VOA News Putting Agriculture at the Center of Climate Talks
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish This June in Brazil, delegates will mark the twentieth anniversary of what is commonly known as the Earth Summit. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development took place in Rio de Janeiro in nineteen ninety-two. One of the issues that the delegates plan to discuss in June at Rio+20 is the role of agriculture in climate change. A recent article written by ...
VOA News Taking Medicine, With a Microchip Under the Skin
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Call it medicine on a microchip. Researchers in the United States have developed the first wirelessly controlled device that can supply a drug directly into the body. A small chip is implanted under the skin. It contains the medicine, which it releases at preset times. The developers say the device could improve the lives of millions of people who take medicine for long-t...
VOA News Vinyl Records Go for a New Spin
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish For many Americans, vinyl records bring back memories of growing up in the '60s and '70s. At that time, people listened to Elvis Presley and The Beatles on black discs spinning on a turntable. Today's younger generation did not grow up with vinyl records. But for them, vinyl is cool. Fourteen-year-old Jack Lowenstein visited Crooked Beat Records in Washington, DC. JACK LOWENSTEIN: "I prefer to buy vinyl records over CD." ...
VOA News Mobile App in Delhi Aims to Protect Women
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish More than twenty thousand new products appeared at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Among the attention getters were "ultrabooks," or very thin laptop computers. Also, Microsoft announced new smartphones with the Windows Phone operating system. Far from the bright lights of Vegas are the poorly lit streets of Delhi. A new mobile app...
VOA News 'Property Ladder' Helps Poor Gain Land Rights
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Less than a third of people in developing countries own or have any official right to the land they live on.(개발도상국에 살고있는 사람들의 1/3이하만이 그들이 살고있는 땅에 어떤 공식적인 권리를 소유하고 있거나 가지고 있다.) Development experts say gaining land rights is important for reducing poverty and increasing economic growth and food production.(개발 전문가들은 땅...
VOA News From Ancient Farmers, Lessons for Today's Amazon
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish South America's Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest and river system on Earth. But the Amazon is disappearing at the rate of about eight hundred thousand hectares a year. This deforestation is caused by an increase in agriculture and cattle ranching and the building of roads and dams. Another cause is the illegal cutting of trees for logging companies. Now, a new ...
VOA News Folic Acid May Reduce Risk of Autism
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English. Women who took folic acid in early pregnancy were less likely to have a child with autism than other women in a recent study. Folic acid is a B vitamin that helps the body build and repair cells. The study, however, did not prove that folic acid can prevent childhood autism. Children with autism have problems communicating and socializing with other people. Researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health looked at r...
VOA News Can Pollution Make Vaccines Less Effective?
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Some researchers are warning about industrial chemicals called perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs. A new study found that PFCs weakened the effectiveness of vaccines designed to protect children from diseases like polio, measles and diphtheria. The protection is supposed to last a lifetime. PHILLIPE GRANDJEAN: "This was quite serious because we could also see that some of the children were so low in antibody concentrations...
VOA News 15,000 Websites That Spread Terror and Hate
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Hate groups and terrorists are increasingly using the Internet to spread their beliefs. The Simon Wiesenthal Center based in California says the problem is getting worse. The center has released its latest "Digital Terror and Hate" report. Rick Eaton is a researcher with the group. He says the Internet offers a lot of information not only about things like making explosiv...
VOA News Crushed Autos as Art
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish New York's Guggenheim Museum has some sculptures made of automobile parts. The sculptures are the work of American artist John Chamberlain. He died in December of 2011 at the age of 84. The Guggenheim Museum organized a show of Chamberlain's work. Susan Davidson tells how he reshaped the cars. SUSAN DAVIDSON: "He is able to choose the positioning of the colors, the fit of the shapes that he brings together, the sound that...
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