Will electric bicycles get Americans to start pedaling?
Electric bicycles are already popular in Europe and in China, which has more e-bikes than cars on its roads.
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Electric bicycles are already popular in Europe and in China, which has more e-bikes than cars on its roads.
Tensions flared between Japan and its Asian neighbors after a group of Japanese lawmakers visited a shrine seen by China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's past militarism ...
This is the 449th birthday of William Shakespeare. Well, actually, it might be his birthday, because we don't really know when he was born.
Three months after the uproar over a $25,000 annual, unvouchered expense account for former Board of Regents President Robert Kennedy, the Higher Education Committee recently approved a bill...
The UK Council For International Student Affairs (UKCISA) has told The PIE News that the Home Office’s new “credibility interviews” of international students are likely to be fairer than predicted ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of a case that major higher education associations (and some judges) said had major implications for academic freedom in doctoral education.
DNA sequenced from nearly 40 ancient skeletons has shed light on the complex prehistoric events that shaped modern European populations.
When Twitter turned 7 last month, I was struck by how rapidly many new things have become mainstream.
Unless space debris is actively tackled, some satellite orbits will become extremely hazardous over the next 200 years, a new study suggests.
For Thailand's Queen Sikrisit, the 2007 attack on a minibus in southern Thailand's Yala province -- in which suspected Muslim militants shot eight Buddhists through the head in broad daylight -- was simply further proof of what she'd been saying for more than three years.