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Six Medical Researchers Who Lived, and in Some Cases Died, for Their Work
VOICE ONE : This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Faith Lapidus. This week, the stories of some medical heroes. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: At the start of the twentieth century, the United States Army had a Yellow Fever Commission. The Army wanted medical experts to [...]
America Welcomes a New President
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The United States got a new president this week. President Barack Obama quickly got to work in his first days in office. In one of his first official actions, he ordered the closure of the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year. He [...]
Milky Way Is a Lot Bigger Than Scientists Thought
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell you about new measurements of our own Milky Way galaxy. We will tell about a study linking diamonds to climate change nearly thirteen thousand years ago. We also will [...]
