There are super-hot chile varieties. And then there's the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.

The one thing 14-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin dislikes is being called a genius.

Astronauts and robots have united in space with a healthy handshake.

A new generation of parades is hitting the streets of New Orleans for Mardi Gras, and they're throwing away old traditions of big, glitzy floats and celebrity kings and queens for smaller, greener and sometimes naughtier floats with a hipster sensibility.

From February 11 to 21, masked parades, live art performances and concerts will fill the streets of Venice as the historic Italian city hosts its annual tribute to theater, the Venice Carnival. 

King Momo, the Rio Carnival's symbol of overweight excess, has employed a personal trainer and a nutritionist as he goes to drastic lengths to whip himself into shape for the festivities.

The entire Netherlands is on a knife's edge this week, holding its breath to see whether a near-mythical ultra ice skating race on frozen canals will become a reality for the first time in 15 years.

When most think of February, they think of Valentine's Day, but here in Louisiana, another holiday comes to mind: Mardi Gras. The Mardi Gras celebration starts on Epiphany, or January 6, when the three kings traveling to see Baby Jesus is celebrated, and Fat Tuesday is always 46 days before Easter, says howstuffworks. Many …

They trek for days through crocodile-infested swamps and up rain-lashed mountain jungles, but the members of the Malaya Historical Group are not seeking treasure or ancient artefacts. Instead, they're after rusty wreckage.

People are already joking it's a good thing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation isn't charging admission for its new visitor center, which showcases Bill Gates' multibillion-dollar philanthropy, not his computers.

The latest scavenger hunt takes you underwater.

Just a few weeks ago, when Nathaniel Hand turned 17, all he could think about was getting his license-not his driver’s license, but his pilot’s license.New Orleans, Louisiana (PRWEB) February 10, 2012 Just a few weeks ago, when Nathaniel Hand turned 17, all he could think about was getting his license-not his driver’s license, …

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Living alone. Once, perhaps, it was a designation that you were an old maid, destined to someday die alone and be devoured by your cat, if you were lucky. But what if that single life could be forever sustained? The stereotypes of the spinster cat lady or the hopeless, hapless bachelor, subsisting on TV dinners and bad …

Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (tah-kah-roo koh-bee-yah-shee) conquered Philadelphia's annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX.

Twins born in Indonesia and put up separately for adoption, have been reunited after finding each other living just 40 kilometres (25 miles) apart, in southern Sweden, three decades later.

Layla Revis is vice president of digital influence at Ogilvy PR Worldwide. Her specialties include international affairs, tourism and multicultural marketing.

Could you live without daily electronic conveniences -- Twitter, Facebook, email, texting and more -- for 90 days? Jake P. Reilly, a 24-year-old college student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, did just that.