It’s 2015, the year envisioned in the 1989 time-traveling movie Back to the Future II, so naturally inventors are racing to create a working version of that film’s most iconic gadget, Marty McFly’s hoverboard.
The Tour de France starts on July 4, but bicycles of another kind are on the rise around Europe. While the professional cyclists work their way up the grueling French Alps routes, this year they may find themselves being passed by another demographic: well-heeled men and women leisurely riding up on their electric bicycles.
In light of last week’s horrific shooting at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Americans are changing their minds on whether it is appropriate for states to fly the Confederate battle flag.
Back to the Future‘s prediction of hoverboards in the year 2015 hasn’t panned out, but the US Army has just announced something even cooler.
The guilt many working mothers confess to may be real, but it’s looking less and less warranted.
For Boston Red Sox baseball player Pablo Sandoval, the phrase ”get your head in the game” has taken on new meaning. On June 18, Sandoval was suspended by his team for one game after he was caught ‘liking’ a photo on Instagram during the previous night’s ball game, according to ESPN.
The world is losing groundwater, fast.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose campaign for US immigration reform seemed on the verge of stalling out a few months ago, has waded back into the thorny political issue with a $5 million charitable gift that’s quickly become its own topic of debate.
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If you’ve been on the internet in the past few days, chances are you may have seen the new “text walking” lanes installed in Antwerp. But so has Antwerp’s mayor, and he is not happy.
Late at night in the fall of 2009, Spencer Gaffney, a sophomore at Princeton University, was wandering the aisles of the university store searching for a late night snack when he noticed something interesting: At 210 calories, an unfrosted strawberry Pop-Tart had 10 more calories per serving than its frosted counterpart.
In a scene that looks straight out of Top Gun, the new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner shows off some remarkable aerial agility for a passenger plane in a video of the plane executing a near-vertical takeoff, followed by several steeply-banked turns:
In South American soccer, fans like a fight.
If you’re looking to take your hammock game to the next level this summer—and have a few thousand dollars to spend on your high-tech lounging—the Kodama Zome might be for you.
A soccer player got a red card and was sent off the pitch earlier this week. Unlike most red cards, this particular one made global headlines as Simen Juklerod was tossed from the match between two clubs in Norway’s second-highest league for calling an opposing player “gay.”
Tonight, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers return to Cleveland for game three of the 2015 NBA Finals, hoping to end the city’s half-century championship drought.
