News articles in simplified English for language learners
The British Museum in London has announced that it is planning to make digital copies of all of its objects. The process of digitizing millions of artifacts will take about 5 years. The announcement comes after the museum admitted that 2000 artifacts were missing from its vast collection. About 250 had already been recovered. According … Read more
On April 3, 1973 Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola made the first cell phone in Manhattan. He called one of his rivals, an engineer at AT & T. Both companies were working on the development of a phone that could not only be used in a car and but which people could actually carry … Read more
The American space agency, NASA, has successfully smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in order to change its path. The probe was steered into Dimorphos, a 160 m-wide asteroid, on purpose in an attempt to change the rock’s course. The collision took place about 11 million kilometres away from earth. It changed the path of … Read more