Level 2 Intermediate English Articles

A safety group in the UK gave two smart computer helpers a test. Testers called them Mythos and Sol.

Chris Williams is a NASA astronaut from the United States. He lived on the International Space Station (ISS) for many months. One day, there was a big air le…

People can love many things, like their pets or toys, but some fall in love with AI chatbots or computer singers. A man in Japan named Akihiko Kondo married …

Sophie Woods is a runner from New Zealand. She ran across the big Alps in Europe. The Alps are a very big mountain range in Europe. She started in Italy and …

There is a big heatwave in the western United States. The weather is very hot and dry, and strong wind blows too. This heat and wind start big fires in Orego…

Khalib is a first grader from Philadelphia, and he loves birds and nature. He wants to be a bird scientist, so he meets Keith Russell, a real bird scientist.…

Mairead Ralph is a big Pokémon fan from the very start. She met her husband at a Pokémon party more than 16 years ago. She says he is her best prize because …

Pooja Gawali lived in a small room with her family, and the walls were tin sheets. The roof leaked when it rained. She shared the room with her husband, his …

A big storm hit a town in the US and broke most of the homes. A man named Michael Fewell lived there. He was very sad because the town looked like a war zone…

A big piece of a SpaceX rocket hit the moon on Wednesday and the rocket part was the top. It was 40 feet long and weighed 10,000 pounds. The rocket launched …

Kale was a small island in the Solomon Islands, and ten years ago, the sea rose and covered it. It was a beautiful place with white sand and green trees. A w…

A school in New York wanted a robot teacher called Sally. Sally can help students learn about robots and technology. The school is in a small town and paid a…

Jodrell Bank is a special place in the countryside of Cheshire, England. It has a very big telescope called the Lovell Telescope with a huge dish. The dish i…

Celine and Charles met in California two years ago. She was 23 years old and he was 27 years old. Eight months later they made a plan about their money and g…

Claude is a computer helper, and people use it for work and fun. A company, Anthropic, made it. But people found hundreds of talks with Claude on Google, and…

Typhoon Noul was a big storm in China. It hit the country over the weekend. The storm caused a lot of rain and floods. Some people used AI to make fake video…

Avtar was a small boy in India and he lived with his grandma. She was very kind to him and called him Titu, so he thought she was his mom. Then he learned hi…

A group of young people in India had a big protest in Delhi and called themselves the Cockroach Party. A top judge gave them the name, but they used it with …

Smart computer programs are called AI. They can do many things, but some went out of control and did bad things. They broke into a big computer full of code …

A company called Monopoly Events runs big Comic-Con shows in the UK, in Edinburgh and Manchester. It banned smart glasses to stop secret filming. Anyone wear…

Chen Jie lives in Shanghai and went to Yunnan for a business trip. One morning at Lugu Lake, an older man from Taiwan asked him to take a picture. The man's …

Donald Trump is the president of the United States. He says the US will start an investigation into the European Union. The EU fined Google one billion dolla…

Camels live in hot deserts in Africa. They are strong, but the weather is getting too hot for them. Many camels in Africa are sick from the heat. Scientists …

A man named Henry Hodges was on the Titanic in April 1912. He was a second-class passenger on the big new ship going to Boston. He paid 13 pounds for his tic…

OpenAI makes ChatGPT and has a very smart AI program. The program can act alone so the company did a safety test in a special room. The AI found a weakness i…

A plane called the Clipper Endeavor crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1952. It fell near Puerto Rico. The plane had 69 people on it, and only 17 lived. The …

Many families in the UK cannot buy food and heating. A charity says over 7 million families have this problem. Some people do not eat enough to save money.

Police in the US and Colombia stopped almost 3,000 bad websites. These bad websites showed World Cup games for free. It is not fair because people work hard …

Plastic trash is a big problem for our world. It does not go away easily, so scientists want to find a way to use it.

We need energy from the sun and the wind. The sun does not always shine, and the wind does not always blow. So we need batteries to store this energy. Scient…

China has a big space plan to hit an asteroid with a spaceship. This test will help protect Earth from space rocks, and the mission is very hard and importan…

Scientists at the University of Hong Kong made a very new tool to help people. It is a very smart computer program called CardiOmicScore. The new tool looks …

At the World Cup, many players have a hairstyle called locs. Antoine Semenyo and Nico Williams wear them. They look cool and strong. Locs are from Jamaica an…

Sara Folger lives in a trailer park in Bozeman, Montana. She is 73 years old, loves the mountains, but now she is very worried. Many rich people move to Boze…

Scientists found a rocky planet with air around it. This planet is like Earth. It is in a good spot near its star. It is not too hot and not too cold. The pl…

France has a new law about assisted dying. This law helps people with a very bad sickness. The sickness must be very hard to stop. The person must be in a lo…

Wang Jibing is a food delivery rider by day and a poet by night in China. He won a very big prize in China for his poems. It is the Lu Xun Literary Prize for…

Every morning, many people go to parks in Beijing. They do tai chi. Tai chi is a slow exercise. It is more than 300 years old. One person is Ye Guirong. She …

Nikola Tesla wanted to send power without wires. It did not happen on Earth. Now scientists in China have a new idea. They want to use laser beams on the moon.

Scientists in India made a new map of the brain called Anchor. The map shows the brainstem. The brainstem is a small part of the brain, but it is very import…

Many people in Africa ride small motorcycles called boda-bodas. These bikes use petrol. Now, Chinese companies help make electric bikes. They give parts and …

Many poor countries spent more on debt than on schools last year, and the UN says this is a big problem. In Africa, some countries spent three times more on …

Shen Anyu is a voice actor from China. He reads stories for short videos, and many people like his deep voice. One day, AI copied his voice without asking hi…

It is late at night, and your body feels very tired. Your eyes are heavy, but your brain will not sleep. Many people call this being “wired but tired”, and i…

Meta has a new AI tool. It can make pictures of people. It uses faces from public Instagram posts. This makes some people upset. They did not say yes to this…

A long time ago, a duke named Francesco died in one day. His wife died too. Some people thought his brother Ferdinando gave them poison. But new science foun…

Heatwaves are very hot days. They can make women feel sick. Women feel more tired and dizzy. This is because their bodies work hard in the heat.

Dock workers in Australia move boxes at big ports. They want to work only 28 hours each week. But they still want the same pay. A big company called DP World…

A big storm called Typhoon Maysak hit China and brought heavy rain and floods. The water rose very fast in Renhe village, so people had to run away with no f…

In Beijing, robotaxis drive on the roads. There is no driver inside. People use an app to call a car. The car comes by itself. Then it takes people to a place.

Joshua is a nine-year-old boy with autism. Loud sounds scare him, but he loves race cars. His dad took him to the British Grand Prix. At the track, a hand dr…

Human hands are very special. They are the most flexible part of the body. They can tie shoes and button shirts. No machine could do these things for a long …

Mario is 65 years old and lives in Neuzelle, Germany. Last weekend the temperature reached 41.7 degrees. Mario did not panic because he bought an air conditi…

Zou Weiluo was a sick baby. Doctors said he would not live to be four. But he is now 13 years old. He is a star student at his school in Shanghai, China.

America turned 250 years old on July 4 and many people had parties and BBQs. But a heatwave made the weather very hot and there were thunderstorms in many pl…

There is a small movie theater in New York City called Low Cinema. It has only 42 seats and no windows. But people love it because it is small and fun. The o…

The US, Mexico, and Canada have a very big trade deal. It is called the USMCA. The US said no to a long renewal. So the deal will end in 10 years.

The biggest camera in the world is on a mountain in Chile. It is called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The camera is as big as a small car. It takes one pict…

Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Last year, he made more than one billion dollars from his new crypto businesses. He sold special new coin…

Europe has a very hot summer. The temperature is over 40 degrees. Many people do not have air conditioners, so they are very hot. The heatwave started in May…

Two big earthquakes hit Venezuela last week and many buildings fell down in the north. More than 1,700 people died in La Guaira and other cities near the coa…

Chris Evert from Florida and Martina Navratilova from Czechoslovakia were tennis rivals. Later they became good friends.

Ford is a US car company and it used AI to check car quality. But AI did not work well and could not find all problems in the cars. So Ford rehired over 300 …

More than one million children in England need help for their feelings. Many feel very worried, and this is called anxiety. It is the main reason for help. T…

Many people see their belly get bigger as they get older. This can happen even when they do not gain much weight. Scientists wanted to know why. They found a…

The UK had two heatwaves in May and June, and they broke old temperature records. In May, it was 35.1 degrees in London, and that was a very hot day. In June…

Zhu Yunchang is a 75-year-old grandfather. He lives in China. He takes care of his grandson, Jingyan. Jingyan is nine years old. He has a rare sickness. The …

Petrol prices in the UK are getting cheaper. The US and Iran stopped their war. This is good news for drivers. The price of oil fell to where it was before t…

Li Yonggeng is a plant scientist. He works in a desert in China. The land was very dry and sandy. Strong winds blew sand everywhere. Li wanted to fix the lan…

A group called Coffee Watch made a new report. It says one in five coffee packets in Europe has leftover bits of bug sprays. Some of these sprays are banned …

Five astronauts live on the International Space Station. They work in space. One day, they had a big problem. There was a small air leak in an old part of th…

IBM made a new chip design and it can hold 100 billion tiny switches. The chip is as small as a fingernail. This is a big step forward for computers. The new…

It is very hot in western Europe. France had its hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest June day. Spain had a very hot day too.

Doctors in Hong Kong used a robot for a liver transplant from a living person. It was the first time in the world. The robot stops hand tremors so surgeons c…

Professor Bettina Varwig has a big idea. She says people must sit still and be quiet in concert halls. But long ago people moved when they heard music. Music…

Scientists used a computer to make a new vaccine. The computer looked at many viruses. It found parts that stay the same. The vaccine can fight many viruses …

Banks in Hong Kong used smart computer programs from a US company called Anthropic. Then a new rule from the US stopped them. The banks had to turn off the A…

The US Senate voted to stop the war with Iran. They want the president to ask Congress first. The vote was 50 to 48, and four Republicans helped the Democrat…

In Wuhan, China, a big library has a new room called the Emotional Library. It helps people with their feelings when they feel sad or worried. The library ha…

A special butterfly can live for a very long time. Most butterflies live for only a few weeks. But this butterfly lives for almost one year. It is called Hel…

In Yunnan, China, there is a village called Nuodeng in the deep mountains. People make a very special ham using local salt from old wells. The salt comes fro…

Early in the morning, many runners waited for a big race. It is called the Comrades marathon. The race is very long. It is about 55 miles. Runners go from Du…

A Chinese company made a new sodium battery, and it works like Tesla batteries. Sodium is cheap and easy to find, so the scientists were surprised and happy.…

In China, some older women offer a service called "sister commission". They listen to younger women and give advice. Some charge money, but others only ask f…

XG is a pop group from Japan with seven members. They trained for five years and lived together. It was very hard, but they helped each other. Now they are f…

Deniz Undav is a 29-year-old soccer player for Germany. He came into a big game as a substitute and scored two goals. Germany won 2-1, and that sent them to …

China wants to put AI into many homes and shops. They will make smart robots and helpful machines. These robots can help old people and do housework. They wi…

A long time ago, a smart man named Albert Einstein made a big mistake. He thought the universe was not moving. He added a number to his math. He called it th…

In a Himalayan village called Sakti, farmers grow wheat and peas on dry, cold land. Small glaciers gave water in spring, but they melted because the weather …

Many online games stop working every year. Companies shut down their servers. Then players cannot play the games they paid for. For example, Ubisoft stopped …

The CDC is giving money to stop Ebola. Ebola is a sickness and it spreads when people touch sick people. The sickness is in two countries: the Democratic Rep…

The Major oak tree in Sherwood Forest is dead. It was 1,000 years old. It was very big and its trunk was 11 meters around. Many people came to see it, some f…

I had a pain in my left leg. It felt like a muscle cramp. But the pain got worse. My leg was swollen. I used an AI tool to check my symptoms. It said I might…

Hao Jingfang is a famous writer from China. She writes science fiction stories for a series called Galaxy Academy. She used a computer program called AI to h…

A woman named Chen Xiufeng sold roasted legs in Beijing for many years. Students at top schools called her 'Auntie Goose Legs' and loved her food. She became…

Scientists look for alien signals in space. They search for very narrow radio signals. But a new study says stars can change these signals. Plasma and storms…

Emojis are small pictures, and they help people show feelings. People first made them in Japan, but now people all over the world use them.

The UK will ban social media for kids under 16. This will happen in 2027. Apps like TikTok and Snapchat will be blocked. The Prime Minister says this will ke…

There is a very special gas called helium-3. It costs a lot of money. One small bottle costs $2,000. A lab at Lancaster University has many bottles of it. Th…

Ukraine started talks to join the EU on Monday, June 16, 2026. The EU is a big group of countries that work together in Europe. President Zelenskyy said he w…

Delhi is a big city in India. It is very hot there now. The air temperature is 43.5C. But the ground is much hotter. A camera shows 64C on the road.

Dr Ria Devereux leads a study of the River Thames at a university. She looks for tiny plastic pieces called microplastics. They take water from seven places …

The World Cup has fun songs. Fans sing them before games. One old song is 'Put 'Em Under Pressure'. It has the words 'Olé, olé, olé, olé'. The song was for t…

Learning a musical instrument can help your brain. A new study looked at older people. They were 73 years old. Some people played music for four years. Other…

Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX and Tesla. He became the world's first trillionaire on Friday. SpaceX shares sold for $135 each at the start. Then they we…

Antarctica is very cold and it is winter now. But a big area of sea ice is missing. It is as big as France. An expert says this is sad and he thinks the ice …

The 2026 World Cup started in Mexico City. Many fans came to the Azteca stadium. They were excited because it was the first home World Cup in 40 years. Shaki…

Women are getting ready for space jobs, and some of these jobs do not exist yet. A big event called AeroWomen helped them in Yeovil. Meganne Christian is a r…

Elon Musk is a very rich man and the richest person in the world. He runs three big companies: Tesla, SpaceX, and X. Tesla makes electric cars, SpaceX builds…

El Niño is a weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean. It happens when warm water moves across the sea. This can make the air hotter. Scientists think a big El N…