B2 · Building confidence
Real places, real news, richer language.
- Two Brand New Animals, Each the Size of a Fingernail Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- The Shrimp With a Sun Inside Its Claw A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- The Army That Lost To Birds In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- Chimpanzees Have Accents A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Teaching a Computer to Speak Whale Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- The Slow Heartbeat of Trees Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- Ten Thousand Athletes, One Opening Night The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- The Bank That Only Takes Cheese An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Your Map Would Be Wrong By Lunchtime Satellite clocks tick faster than clocks on the ground, and if nobody corrected for it your phone would... Audio
- You Glow. Nobody Can See It. Human skin gives off a faint light all day long, and a Japanese team photographed it in a sealed dark room. Audio
- Divers Mistook This for a Rock Two spearfishermen off Sicily swam past what they thought was a boulder. It was a Roman ship. Audio
- They Taste With Their Arms An octopus does not need to see or smell its food. It tastes whatever it touches, with its arms. Audio
- Your Messages Travel Underwater Almost everything you send across an ocean travels through cables lying on the sea floor, not through... Audio
- The Hotel That Moves While You Sleep On a European night train, you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another, with the Alps outside... Audio
- The United States Reaches the Next Round at Home As a host nation, the United States won its opening matches and advanced early to the knockout stage of the... Audio
- The City That Uncovered a River For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- Sunday Paella An adult granddaughter visits home and finds her grandfather hasn't forgotten anything yet. Audio