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A chemistry teacher in Maine put a Twinkie on display for years until he retired — it held its shape and color. It now marks its 40-year anniversary, exhibited in a glass box in the dean's office.

Dutch politician Geert Wilders called for a similar referendum for the Netherlands, while French leader Marine Le Pen called it a "victory for freedom."

The city voted in early May against allowing the companies to use their own background check systems for drivers, rather than adopt the background checks required for taxi drivers.

We have the treatments to end health problems like infant diarrhea. Sendhil Mullainathan says the "last mile" nudge is to encourage people to use them.

Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani offers a creative solution to gently push young women into making bold decisions. Her program aims to close the gender gap in computer science.

Joshua Browder was fed up with parking tickets so he made a robot to help people challenge fines. The robot chats with people in London and New York, asks them what happened and writes an appeal.

One neighbor says the rock wall looks daunting and forbidding. Another says the wall looks nice. A spokesman says the wall is designed to reduce road noise.

The British Museum has a 5,000-year-old tablet from the ancient Mesopotamian city of Uruk that is likely a pay stub. Historians say beer at that time was thick and starchy — basically liquid bread.

We speak with sound effects artist Fred Newman about the show as creator Garrison Keillor wraps up his decades-long run at the helm this year.

A spider monkey recently escaped from his owner in the Ontario town of Innisfil. Mango isn't the first primate to run loose there. In 2012, Darwin was spotted wearing a sheepskin coat at Ikea.