Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is a contemporary ballet based on the Russian romantic work Swan Lake, from which it takes the music by Tchaikovsky and the broad outline of the plot. Bourne's rendering is best known for having the traditionally female parts of the swans danced by men. It was the longest-...

Residents of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, celebrated their country winning the Eurovision song contest on Sunday morning. As many predicted coming into this politically charged Eurovision final, held in Turin, Italy, Ukraine were the big winners as the international public seized the chance to show thei...

Squirrels - the acrobats of the animal world - are helping scientists develop ever more agile smart robots. Engineers have got to the bottom of the split-second thinking of the bushy-tailed rodents. It enables them to leap and land - from the sturdiest wall to the flimsiest branch. The breakthrough...

The University of Tel Aviv: for the first time in the world, researchers at Tel Aviv University recorded and analyzed sounds distinctly emitted by plants. The click-like sounds, similar to the popping of popcorn, are emitted at a volume similar to human speech, but at high frequencies, beyond the h

Kristian Kostov started his musical journey at the age of 6. After going solo when he was 11 years old, he took part in many competitions, but the first big boost for Kristian’s career was his 2014 appearance on Russia’s The Voice Kids, where he was mentored by for Eurovision Song Contest winner Dim

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...

This visualization is based on the first three-dimensional numerical model of melting snowflakes in the atmosphere, developed by scientist Jussi Leinonen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A better understanding of how snow melts can help scientists recognize the signature ...

In his recent remarks to congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of his countrymen and women, and of his land, in loving terms. I immediately remembered the poetry of Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) set by David Nowakowsky (1848-1921), of the Brodsky Synagogue in Odessa, which evokes ...

John Legend took the stage at the 2022 Grammys to perform a special and powerful tribute to Ukraine amid their ongoing war with Russia. The 43-year-old singer debuted his new song, "Free," while singing and playing the piano after Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, shared a video statement ab...

Mod Carousel, a Seattle based boylesque troupe, performs a comedic cover of Miley Cyrus' "Can't Be Tamed" with the help of Seattle's own Leeni (of the band Prom Queen) The rise in homosexual hate crimes in our own Seattle neighborhoods as well as recent unsettling news concerning international polit...