It was nearly four years ago when CrossFit star Alec Smith publicly came out as gay. In his emotional coming-out video, Smith says he used to “hate himself” for his homosexuality, and could never imagine embracing his attraction to men. But Smith is hiding no longer. He’s open about his life on soc

In the early hours of May 17, 2011 a beautiful filament erupted from the Sun and sent a cloud of plasma into space. This Coronal Mass Ejection was not aimed at Earth but most likely will interact with Earth's magnetic field two days later, creating some of these beautiful auroras. The second segment...

A dramatic comedy set in the world of male strippers, "Magic Mike" is directed by Academy Award(R)-winning director Steven Soderbergh ("Traffic") and stars Channing Tatum in a story inspired by his real life. The film follows Mike (Tatum) as he takes a young dancer called The Kid (Alex Pettyfer) und...

This movie of the March 6, 2012 X5.4 flare was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in the 171 and 131 Angstrom wavelength. One of the most dramatic features is the way the entire surface of the sun seems to ripple with the force of the eruption. This movement comes from something called...

Sabine Babayeva will represent Azerbaijan at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan with the song 'When The Music Dies'.

The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok , Russia , just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the c...

Since the first performance in 1995, the annual Fire Island Dance Festival has become the Island's most anticipated cultural event of the season. Fire Island Dance Festival features an eclectic mix of world-renowned and emerging dancers, dance companies and choreographers. The weekend-long festival ...

An animation of a fly-through of some of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay route. Will the Olympic Torch be passing you? View the London 2012 Olympic Torch route in this animated film and see if you are close to any area of the relay.

My friend is an anthem, a hymn that celebrates life as a miracle, a song that encourages us to live every day to the fullest and be who we need to be in life. It is a song that reminds us to respect each other and our differences. Let's just be friends - regardless of our race, nationality, age, rel...

In this thirty first episode of MALE BALLET DANCERS we showcase Elisha Nielsen and Amar Smalls during a training exercise as well as cuban Jorge Barani "having fun in the studio." We also include superstars Kimin kim from South Korea and Japanese ballet dancer Tetsuya Kumakawa and a former princi