For hours at a time, Ronaldo Marcelo Wanderlei da Silva pedals on a stationary bike for a cause. But it is not an ordinary bike, nor an ordinary cause.

An economist argues that people often do not act in their own best interests, and sometimes benefit from a nudge in the right direction.

Last year some 365 million kilos of Nutella was consumed in 160 countries. Half a century ago, in a small town in northern Italy, this would have been unimaginable.

The year 2017 makes 10 years since the young, brave seven-year-old Alexis Goggins put herself and her body in harms way just to save the

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Researchers from the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan measured milk consumption (plain milk and flavoured milk) by children in a sample of Saskatoon elementary schools.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

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The minute super-producer Rick Rubin heard the finished version of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s Baby Got Back, he said:

Nigerian hospital patients may not be allowed to leave until they have paid their bill. But in Lagos a wealthy philanthropist is on the lookout for people to help.

When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from work one day earlier this month, she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.

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In the 28 years since Super Mario Bros. was released, and it's been beaten pretty comprehensively in that time. But have you ever made the game beat itself?

Odin the great Pyrenees refused to leave goats behind and ended up ensuring everyone, including deer, survived the Tubbs Fire

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