Rat Ambassadors Try to Win over the American Public

Three zoos in the United States, including the San Diego Zoo, now have "hero rat" ambassadors, showing the abilities of the African giant pouched rats.A Tanzania-based organization

虽然一些学生选择跳过大学 但技工学校正在增长

Almost every area of higher education in the United States has fewer students registering for classes. But many trade programs are growing.Trade programs teach students skills for

突尼斯政府下令实施节水措施

Because of severely dry conditions, Tunisia has ordered water to be rationed with little warning to the people there.Water is to be cut off for seven hours a day from 9 o'clock in

Are You a 'Bull in a China Shop'?

And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.Have you ever felt out of place? Have you ever felt clumsy, like you cannot move gracefully and smoothly? If you answere

美国宇航局展出火星栖息地 志愿者将实地生活一年

NASA showed off a simulated Mars environment this month where four volunteers will live for one year to help the American space agency prepare to send humans to the planet.The volu

研究人员借助死亡鸟类进行研究

Scientists in the southwestern state of New Mexico are giving dead birds new life through unusual research.A team at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro is

太空探索技术公司超重型火箭升空后爆炸

Grammar and Cars

Imagine you are in a car. Perhaps another person is driving. What kinds of sentences are you likely to hear or use?In today's Everyday Grammar, we will show you how cars can teach

这是艺术还是广告？

Where is the line between art and advertising? The question is central to a big dispute in a small American town. A large painting in Conway, New Hampshire, has led to a zoning con

SpaceX公司超重型火箭升空后爆炸

A SpaceX rocket successfully launched with the company's Starship spacecraft Thursday, but the two-part system exploded minutes later and crashed into the sea.It was the first

格陵兰岛和南极洲冰川融化速度比30年前更快

An international study says ice in Greenland and Antarctica is melting faster than it was about 30 years ago.The study used 50 different satellite estimates gathered by the U.S. sp

联合国：印度将在今年晚些时候成为世界上人口最多的国家

The United Nations estimates India will pass China to have the world's largest population sometime later this year. This comes from the U.N. Population Fund's State of the

西班牙公司计划室内种植啤酒原料

In large buildings outside Madrid, Spain's capital, hop vines grow under special lights and close supervision.A small company believes growing the vines will be important to en

普通错误导致在美国发生枪击事件

In a period of six days, four young people across the United States were shot — one of them to death — for making ordinary mistakes: arriving at the wrong place.A man shot and wo

Data Leak Shows National Security Risks of Online Gaming Groups

Experts say online gaming services have long presented national security risks that are difficult for governments to control.One such example is the recent release, or leak, of hig

马斯克计划创建ChatGPT替代品

Businessman Elon Musk says ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence "bots" are too liberal and that he plans to create his own.Musk, the owner of Twitter and the Tesla electric ve

美国最古老的城市对许多人来说仍是个谜

Students of United States history often learn that Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts and Jamestown in Virginia were the earliest settlements in North America.But more than 50 years ea

渔业监管机构需要更多透明度

Environmental groups and fishing interests are criticizing regional organizations set up by the United Nations to supervise fishing activities around the world.The groups say the U

顾问帮助学生完成社区大学的学业

Ten years after suspending her studies, Briana Mathis, a 30-year-old mother of two children, is in her first year back at Wallace Community College.Support staff at the school in D

上演35年 音乐剧《剧院魅影》落幕百老汇

The Phantom of the Opera closed Sunday night after 35 years on New York City's famous Broadway.The musical theater show opened on January 26, 1988. It completed nearly 14,000 perfo

在种植草地时 请考虑您的花园环境条件

Wildflower meadows have been growing in popularity among gardeners – and for good reason.A meadow is a usually flat area of land that is covered with tall grass. Meadows are easy

是什么导致了苏丹的内战？

Over the weekend, fighting broke out between the armies of Sudan's two most powerful generals.Tensions had been rising for weeks between the armed forces chief, General Abdel-F

科学家发布首张黑洞图片的高清版

Scientists have released a more detailed version of the first image of a black hole.That first image, released four years ago, showed a blurry, round-shaped orange object. Now, res

主语和宾语

Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we will answer a question about subjects and objects.Question:Hello VOA Learning English, I am Noormohammed from Saudi Arabia. I have a question

乌克兰战争持续 心理健康需求增加

Sitting in a restaurant in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, 20-year-old Nastya took slow, deep breaths to calm herself. Her neighborhood had just been bombed again, as the war with Russia cont