VOA标准英语2013--Liberian Refugee Gets New Face After Devastating Acid Burn

Liberian Refugee Gets New Face After Devastating Acid Burn Henry Cole has lost count of how many times hes been wheeled into surgery. In the last two years, Cole has had more than a dozen procedures. And there are more to come. But he has no complain

科学美国人60秒 SSS Flowers Deceive Flies with Chemical Cocktail

Honeybee stings are painful. But they're also fragrant. If a beekeeper gets stung by bees, it smells like banana. Dr. Stefan D?tterl, a plant ecologist at the University of Salzburg in Austria. That banana scent, he says, is a compound called isoamyl

2005年NPR美国国家公共电台三月-British TV Crosses over the Pond

NBC tonight launches a new series-The Office. It's the American version of a British comedy series. The original has a small but dedicated group of fans in the United States. Remaking British series for American audiences is not new, but as NPR's Kim

英语听力：自然百科 行星旅行指南：木星 Jupiter—7

If you are floating in a balloon, the center of the red spot might be rather calm. But you will be going fast, your balloon will be going faster than the hurricane winds, but it might be a smooth ride. This storm is a sigh to the halt, towering five

VOA标准英语2011--Bioengineered Spinal Disc Could Relieve

Bioengineered Spinal Disc Could Relieve Back Pain Researchers at Cornell University in New York have developed an artificial spinal disc that may help patients with chronic back pain and other disc problems. The spine is a column of bones alternating

VOA标准英语2011--Doctors Achieve Milestone Using Artifici

Doctors Achieve Milestone Using Artificial Heart With No Beat In March, two doctors at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston achieved what medical experts call a major milestone by implanting a continuous-flow artificial heart in a human patient. The

VOA标准英语2011--Scientists Create Glue Inspired by Musse

Have you ever wondered how those hard-shelled mollusks known as mussels anchor themselves to rocks on lake and river bottoms? How they stick to sea walls, or resist pounding waves? Scientists at the University of Chicago have done more than come up w

VOA标准英语2014--尚未做好让机器人进入家庭的准备,但是越来越近了!

Robots Not Ready for Homes, But Getting Closer 尚未做好让机器人进入家庭的准备,但是越来越近了! Robots are not ready to take their place in our homes. But they are getting better at working closely with humans in industrial settin

VOA常速英语2014--Visual Effects Could Change How Movies are Made 未来电影特效改变影片制作

Visual Effects Could Change How Movies are Made 未来电影特效改变影片制作 When you watch a movie these days, its difficult to tell whats real and whats created in a computer. In the future, visual effects could even alter how movies are ma

VOA标准英语2014--Technology Helps Restore Paintings by Old Masters 科技帮助修复大师早期画作

Technology Helps Restore Paintings by Old Masters 科技帮助修复大师早期画作 WASHINGTON In the late 16th century, the Spanish artist El Greco created a huge painting, 1 meter by 2 meters, titled Saint Martin and the Beggar. In the first hal

美国国家公共电台 NPR To Repel Ticks, Try Spraying Your Clothes With A Pesticide That Mimics Mums

DAVID GREENE, HOST: We have been reporting on the rise of some really nasty diseases caused by tick bites - everything from Lyme disease to Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Well, now a new study is shedding light on an old technique to repel ticks that

VOA常速英语2008年-Water Diverted from Swollen Mississippi River t

By Greg Flakus New Orleans 25 April 2008 The Mississippi river, which drains more than 40 percent of North America's river flow into the Gulf of Mexico, is at its highest point in years, leading to concern that levees protecting the city of New Orlea

2007年VOA标准英语-Scientists Find Gene Linking Lifespan to Calori

By David McAlary Washington 02 May 2007 U.S. researchers have discovered a gene that promotes longer life in earthworms that eat much less than normal. Humans have similar genes, and VOA's David McAlary reports that, if they work the same way as in t