Happy 85th birthday to Roy Ayers, sometimes called the “Godfather of Neosoul,” who pioneered a variety of off-mainstream jazz and funk genres with his creative compositions and blistering vibraphone solos. His best-known songs are Searchin’, Everbody Loves the Sunshine, and Running Away. Ayers is also a talented producer and session player, collaborating with the…
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San Diego Zoo is celebrating the birth of a Sumatran tiger cub, a subspecies of which only 600 give or take one-third, remain in the wild. The cub was born August 23rd to first-time mother Jillian. This birth is an important step in San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s ongoing work to…
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In northern Maine, a company is planning the largest battery ever made by humans with 8,500 megawatt-hours of storage. The purpose is to store renewable energy like solar and wind, produced but not needed, for times when the Sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. The batteries store and discharge…
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NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley has donated $1 million to an academy in New Orleans that just produced two groundbreaking young mathematicians. The story begins last year when GNN reported on the success of two high school teens 2,000 years in the making. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson from St….
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On this day in history, two masters of early ocean exploration returned to their prospective homes—Vasco da Gama 525 years ago to Lisbon, and Thomas Cavendish 436 years ago to Plymouth. The former had chartered the first European course to India via the Cape of Good Hope, while the latter completed…
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A miracle IVF baby has tied the knot with a woman who was born steps away from him in the same hospital on the same day. Newborn Ross Watson made headlines when he was born on August 21, 1994—and the headlines are continuing 30 years later. Last month he celebrated his…
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Scientists have discovered that ‘switching off’ a protein called IL-11 can significantly increase the healthy lifespan of mice by almost 25%. The UK researchers at Medical Research Council Laboratory and Imperial College London, worked with colleagues at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore to test the effects on mice that had the…
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