MacKenzie Scott Donated $7.1 Billion to Nonprofits in 2025, a Major Increase with More to Come
Divorcé philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave $7.1 billion to various nonprofits and charities last year, a recent blog post from the reclusive giver claimed. “Since my post last December, I’ve given $7,166,000,000 to organizations doing work all over the world,” she wrote. Scott claimed she had donated $2.6 billion in 2024 and $2.1 billion in 2023. […]
The Tiger Population Doubled in India in Just Ten Years
Conservation in India successfully doubled the native population of tigers in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study reveals. In 2010, the nations that make up the remaining range countries of the tiger set a target to double the number of wild tigers worldwide—a goal called Tx2—10 at the St. Petersburg International summit […]
This Ancient Man’s Piercing Hazel Eyes Drew Almost $1 Million in ‘Mummy Portrait’ Auction
Sotheby’s recently sold a painting of a man from Roman-controlled Egypt in the first century CE that experts suggest represents the dawn of realistic portraiture 1,200 years before it appeared in Italy. The image is part of a family of works known collectively as the Fayum Mummy Portraits, all of which were found during 19th […]
Wearable Airbag Vest Will Help Protect Downhill Skiers from Extreme Speeds at Olympics in Italy
As the Winter Olympics roars into life in northern Italy, athletes will be sporting state-of-the-art airbag vests that inflate during crashes, protecting speed skiers from the worst injuries. For those unfamiliar, the Olympics are being held at the renowned ski area called Cortina d’Ampezzo, which is also a stop on the downhill events at the […]
Woman Discovers Childhood Pen Pal Became Doctor Who Delivered Her 2 Kids: ‘My Mouth Dropped’
It wasn’t quite a reunion; since the women knew each other well. Their relationship, so far as they understood it, was that important one between an OB/GYN and their patient carrying a child. Little did Megan Lewis and Suzanne Koziol know it at the time, but their relationship was actually a little bit deeper than […]
Billionaire Tom Kaplan Auctions Rare Rembrandt Lion Drawing for $18M to Help Save the Animal it Depicts
Yesterday, Sotheby’s oversaw the record $18 million sale of a drawing by Rembrandt: one of 6 drafts he made of lions, and the only one to have resided in private hands. Those hands belong to Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife, who along with standing foremost among the world’s private Rembrandt collectors, ride in […]
Moss Spores Riding on the Outside of the Space Station Survive For 9 Months
The reproductive spores of a moss species were able to somehow survive the vacuum of space during a 9-month stint outside the International Space Station. In the immortal words of Jeff Goldblum, life, uh, finds a way. Physcomitrella patens is known as a hardy pioneer species of spreading moss that readily cultivates on muddy ground. Scientists […]
NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering the confirmation of a bright galaxy that existed a mere 280 million years after the Big Bang; so close to the beginning of the universe as we understand. GNN reported on the last such discovery, a galaxy 300 million years after, and scientists are […]
Jaguars Recorded Meowing for the First Time Ever (LISTEN)
While searching for their cubs, the females of the world’s third-largest feline will make a sound that’s strikingly similar to what you’ve heard your own cat make. Weighing in excess of 300 lbs., the jaguar is a ferocious predator that can take large caiman and even cattle, but recent video camera trap footage has revealed […]
Record Harvest Dubbed the ‘Potato Flood’ and Prompts Mass Spud Giveaways Across Berlin
From Germany comes the story of mountains of potatoes as far as the eye can see going to feed anyone and everyone in Berlin and nearby towns. For German potato farmers, the early winter potato harvest has been a bumper crop—no, a banner crop—nay, it’s a full-on food-bank-buster crop. The “potato flood” as it’s being […]