The popularity of bikes with electric motors has soared recently, with U.S. sales topping $1.3 billion in 2022. But while e-bikes are being hailed as a more accessible mode of transportation, their ...

The other day I was walking and saw a large crowd gathered outside a hotel in front of me. As I walked past the front doors, my head was on a swivel. “Why are people huddled here?” I thought to myself ...

Country music is enjoying a huge resurgence this year—and it's also showing signs that it could become more inclusive. With both Beyoncé and Lana Del Rey having announced that they're releasing ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

Roger Ibbotson and a trio of leading Morningstar researchers recently published Popularity: A Bridge Between Classical and Behavioral Finance. It's an ambitious effort, checking in at 140 pages and ...

A president's popularity, as measured by job-approval ratings, plays an undeniably critical role in determining his Capitol Hill clout and his party's electoral prospects. So whatever influences that ...

The concept of popularity may evoke visions of high-school angst, but the drive for social currency lingers even after we have (supposedly) grown up. In Popular: The Power of Likability in a ...