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[VIDEO] Dance Movement Therapy at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA

The UCLA Child Life/Child Development Program launched "Dréa's Dream," the first pediatric Dance Therapy Program in Los Angeles in November 2008, providing dance/movement therapy for children with cancer and special needs

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[VIDEO] -Dancing On Our Star: Sun's Magnetic Tendrils Share Plasma

[VIDEO] -Dancing On Our Star: Sun's Magnetic Tendrils Share Plasma | Science News | Scoop.it
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the Sun sharing its super-heated dark plasma in a magnetic dance that would amaze the DWTS judges. This solar pas de deux exchanges material along magnetic field lines thousands of kilometers long.
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Dirty dancing: dung beetles get down to walk the line : Nature News & Comment

Dirty dancing: dung beetles get down to walk the line : Nature News & Comment | Science News | Scoop.it

The meticulous insects pirouette atop their dung balls to get their bearings and correct navigational errors.

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How scientists deciphered the "waggle dance" language of bees

How scientists deciphered the "waggle dance" language of bees | Science News | Scoop.it
This is one of the most succinct and interesting videos I've ever seen about how bees communicate with each other. Using a series of precise dance moves, they inform their hive mates about the locations of food sources.
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Nao Robots - Thriller

A definitly too short Thriller-Spot "danced "by Nao Robots

Articles about robotics: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics

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[VIDEO] "Neural Rhythms": Neuroscience Meets Tap Dance by Maddie Schwarz

Neurons, the cells that comprise our brains, each fire with distinct patterns and rely on one another’s communicative signals to produce the larger rhythms which carry out our thoughts and actions. Listen a little closer, and you’ll find that tap dancers talk in the same way, all the while relying on the 100 billion cells keeping time within their cortices.

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Video: Laysan Albatross Mating Dance

Midway, part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, is one of the world's most spectacular wildlife experiences. Nearly three million birds call it home for much of each year, including the world's largest population of Laysan Albatrosses, or "gooney birds". Hawaiian monk seals, green sea turtles and spinner dolphins frequent Midway's crystal blue lagoon.

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The Beetle ‘Poo Dance’ | LiveScience

The Beetle ‘Poo Dance’ | LiveScience | Science News | Scoop.it
Some dung beetles do a little jig on their dung balls to help orient themselves so they can navigate away from rivals, researchers have found.
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Firing Neurons | Cell Dance 2010, Public Outreach Video Winner

Leonard Bosgraaf, Ph.D., Molecular Shots, Inc, of Groningen, The Netherlands, for "Firing Neurons," a movie created entirely by computer animation.
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