Google Gives $36 Million to 17 Science Teams Using AI
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Google is giving money for AI in science.
- A2
On 14 October 2026, Google named 17 winners of a science challenge.
- B1
On 14 October 2026, Google shared the winners of the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science.
- B2
On 14 October 2026, Google announced that 17 organizations will share $36 million in funding through the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science.
- C1
Researchers are applying AI, or artificial intelligence, to complex problems like predicting environmental changes and understanding human illness.
- C2
When researchers apply AI, or artificial intelligence, to intricate questions like forecasting environmental shifts or deciphering human illness, the goal is to resolve global challenges faster and improve lives.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- funding
- money given by a government or organization for an event or activity
- breakthrough
- an important discovery or development that helps solve a problem
- attract
- to make people interested in something so that they join or take part
- recipient
- a person or group that receives something, such as money or a prize
- severe
- very bad, serious, or extreme
- reactor
- a large machine used to produce nuclear energy
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