The AlphaDog Proto is a lab prototype for the Legged Squad Support System, a robot being developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA and the US Marine Corps. When fully developed the system will carry 400 lbs of payload on 20-mile missions in rough terrain. The first version of the complete...

Janet Mock, a writer living in New York, tells her story of growing up transsexual in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she was born male and transitioned from Charles to Janet during her freshman year of high school. Due to her adolescent transition, she was bullied, teased and taunted through the halls of h...

Jimmy Kimmel showed off another must-watch clip that should have played at the Oscars — the trailer for Movie: The Movie, something Kimmel says "packs everything moviegoers love into one spectacular motion picture event." Ryan Phillippe, Jessica Alba, Taylor Lautner, Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin,

As Je’Jae (they/them pronouns), a 23-year-old gender-nonconforming Mizrahi Jew, explores an affirming expression of their gender and sexuality, they struggle against their mom’s rigid expectations for their life, many of which are shaped by the predominantly White, middle-class Orthodox Jewish commu

Reactions to real-life couple Tymur and Zoryan walking the streets of Kiev holding hands were mostly muted, and many bystanders seemed more amused than upset. That wasn’t the case however when Tymur decided to sit on Zoryan’s lap in a popular city park. The two were approached by a dozen or so neo-N

Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event--the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apa...

A private company has launched a spacecraft in a bold demonstration test for NASA. The Space Exploration Technologies rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning. The Falcon 9 is carrying a capsule named Dragon. The company, known as SpaceX, hopes to place the capsule in orbit and th...

The Harry Potter Studio Tour opens in 2012 at Leavesden Studios near London! Warner Brothers has just purchased Leavesden Studios, home to the Harry Potter movies, The Dark Knight, Inception, Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows! Find out all about the Warner Brothers Studio Tour...

Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in the Netherlands (2001), Belgium (2003), Spain (2005), Canada (2005), South Africa (2006), Norway (2009), Sweden (2009), Portugal (2010), Iceland (2010), Argentina (2010), Denmark (2012), Brazil (2013), France (2013), Uruguay (2013), New Zealand (2013), th...

This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011, in the El Teide mountains in Spain, one of the highest mountain @(3715m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world´s best observatories.

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