VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:And I’m Faith Lapidus. On our program this week, we discuss scientific findings about how intelligence develops in babies.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:Not long ago, many people believed that babies only wanted fo...
VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:A blue parrotfish swims by a coral on one of the reefs near Midway AtollAnd I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about recent studies of coral reefs. Corals are groups of small organisms called polyps. They...
VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:The WHO says tobacco causes more than five million deaths a yearAnd I'm Barbara Klein. On our program this week, we will tell about an international appeal to reduce smoking rates. We will also tell about an Amer...
VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO.And I'm Bob Doughty. This week, we will tell about a device that makes electrical power from something as simple as walking. We will tell about a common disease many people have never heard of. And, we report o...
VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:And I'm Shirley Griffith. On our program this week, we will examine efforts to defeat the disease polio.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:An Afghan girl receives polio vaccine in Kandahar province last monthPakistan is working ...
VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO:And I'm Bob Doughty. Today we tell about headaches, the head pain that strikes almost everyone at some time.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:Have you had a headache recently? If your answer is yes, you are like many millions o...
VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about a visit to the planet Mercury. We will tell about the dangers of products for making skin lighter. And, we report on how finger lengths could influence your he...
VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWSin VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:And I’m Barbara Klein. This week, we talk about a sickness called lupus and other autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune diseases affect the immune system – the body’s natural defenses for fightin...
VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:Chickens at a market in Bangkok.And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell how a deadly bird flu virus is able to infect people. We will also tell about two studies of broken hipbones. And, we report on the d...
VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:Placebos look the same as real medicinesAnd I'm Faith Lapidus. On our program this week, we will tell about a study of medications that do not contain any real drugs. We will tell about a reported link between th...
VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Barbara Klein. On our program this week, we look at how people become medical doctors in the United States.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:A medical student in the state of WyomingIt is not easy to become a doctor in th...
buzhidA look at the 14 different kinds of vitamins, known as A, the B group, C, D, E and K.VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week, we tell about vitamins.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:Rey Salazar and his daughter, Aketzalli, 4,...
We explain about the influenza virus, tell how and why it spreads, and report about ways to prevent flu infections.VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO: Emergency hospital during 1918 influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, KansasAnd I'm Faith Lapidus. Th...
Learn about the different kinds of diabetes, and how exercise and diet may reduce the risk of developing type two diabetes.VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:Doctors say people can reduce the risk of some kinds of diabetes by increasing exercise...
Also: Using ultraviolet light to purify water. And advice for treating minor injuries.VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Bob Doughty. On our program this week, we will tell about an environmental study of the recent wildfires in California...
Also: Some researchers fear a new study could lead people to believe that weighing too much is not as big a health problem as many had thought. And we answer a question about the AIDS virus.VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:File photo of embryoni...
Also on SCIENCE IN THE NEWS: American experts suggest early autism testing for all babies. And, scientists are developing plants to eat chemical wastes.VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:And I'm Barbara Klein. On our program this week, we will tel...
Also: A 7-year-old listener asks how to help a friend with a genetic disorder called phenylketonuria, or PKU.VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Pat Bodnar. This week, we will tell about a gas that helps to carry oxygen from the blood. We w...
Also: Leading scientific publications join together to examine poverty and development.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, we will tell about an effort to search for intelligent life beyond our universe. We will te...
Also: Two Americans and a Briton win the Nobel Prize for their work on the duties of individual genes.VOICE ONE:This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:Researchers at Ohio State University studied exercise-induced asthma among top athletes at the school. Ohio St...
