How to deal with peer pressure? College students are often obsessed by peer pressure from their classmates or schoolmates. Facing others hard work and good performance in academic and other aspects, many students feel great pressure. Then, how to dea...
As the World Cup moves into its third week, Johannesburg city officials, business owners and fans say they are pleased with its performance as a host city. More than 350,000 fans are expected to visit South Africa, and Johannesburg's two World Cup st...
Shhh, keep this podcast a secret. Because new research points to a possible blind spot in airport security screening: it may be easier to sneak something dangerous past securitya box cutter, for exampleby also including an obvious and innocuous banne...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Athletes have obviously been tempted to use performance enhancing anabolic steroids. Drug testing may discourage such use. But a new study finds that some of the perfo...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 21 December 2007 Population statistics are hard to visualize, but an art exhibition in Los Angeles makes the numbers easier to grasp. Mike O'Sullivan reports that the exhibition, called Of All the People in All the Worl...
By Ade Astuti and Susy Tekunan Washington 17 October 2007 Islam is the second-largest religion in the world after Christianity, and it is also one of the fastest-growing faiths in the United States today. Some Muslim women in America are working to f...
