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Steven DeKosky, The Conversation
Americans and others around the world have turned increasingly to dietary supplements in order to maintain or preserve their brain health.A recent study found that a quarter of adults over 50 take a supplement for brain-related health. But that same study, done by experts convened by the AARP, suggests that seniors should spend their money elsewhere. The supplements don't work.

The four British, two American and one each Australian and Indian mountaineers were reported missing on May 31 after they failed to return to Munsiyari.

Stuart Thompson, The Conversation
Chernobyl has become a byword for catastrophe. The 1986 nuclear disaster, recently brought back into the public eye by the hugely popular TV show of the same name, caused thousands of cancers, turned a once populous area into a ghost city, and resulted in the setting up of an exclusion zone 2600km in size.

Lisa Grossman, ScienceNews
The cosmic oddity known as the Cow may have been a dying star that shed its skin like a snake before it exploded.Newly released observations support the idea that the burst occurred in a dense environment with strong magnetic fields, astronomer Kuiyun Huang and colleagues report in The Astrophysical Journal Letters June 12.

Sarah Wild, Sapiens
More than 100,000 years ago, humans lived in the caves that dot South Africa's coastline. With the sea on their doorstep and the Cape's rich diversity of plant life at their backs, these anatomically modern Homo sapiens flourished. Over several millennia, they collected shells that they used as beads, created toolkits to manufacture red pigment, and sculpted tools from bones.

He doesn’t have the pace to rattle the batsmen or the speedy toe-crushing yorkers any more, but the veteran pacer makes up for it with plenty of variations which keep the batsmen guessing.

Luca Bcken & Alaa Murabit, Project Syndicate
In the years leading up to Syria's civil war, the country endured three consecutive record-breaking droughts. By forcing internal displacement, the droughts arguably contributed to the social tensions that erupted in popular protests in 2011. But that does not mean that the Syrian conflict is a climate war.

Michael Livermore & Dan Rockmore, Slate
Countries around the world are quickly developing approaches to social, political, and economic changes driven by big data and artificial intelligence. What seems fine in one place is often horrifying in another. China has embraced pervasive facial recognition technology, which gives many Americans the heebie-jeebies.

Kavin Senapathy, Skeptical Inquirer
If I've learned one thing in the years I've spent covering health, food, medicine, and parenting from an aggressively science and evidence-backed standpoint, it's that people want simple answers to complex problems and that we want to feel good about these choices. That's perhaps no more apparent than in the parenting world.

Damian Garde, Stat
The Food and Drug Administration approved a controversial drug meant to increase women's desire for sex, a treatment that has rekindled a debate over the limits of medicine when it comes to human sexuality.

Ethan Siegel, Forbes
Today is June 21st, 2019: the day of the solstice. Although there are many factors at play that determine the behavior of each planet its spin and orbital angular momenta, the eccentricity of its orbit, the effects of General Relativity and the other planets there's only one that determines when the solstices are: axial tilt.

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Launched on 11 October 1968, Apollo 7 was the first manned test of the Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit. After the deaths of the Apollo 1 crew in a fire, the command module had been completely redesigned.There was a lot resting on this mission. If Apollo 7 failed, it's likely that Neil Armstrong would never have made his small step. At least, not by the end of the decade the target set by President John F Kennedy in 1961.

James Hamblin, The Atlantic
Every New Year's Day at 6 a.m., my high-school team had swimming practice. Driving to the pool in the frozen Indiana darkness, I assumed the rationale was simply that the coach was a nonviolent psychopath. Someone had ruined his youth and now he wanted to ruin ours. We weren't explicitly forbidden from going out and having fun on New Year's Eve.

Allison Eck, PBS NOVA
In the world of quantum computing, diamonds might be an engineer's best friend.That's because a fabled, super-pure type of gem mined from the Ural Mountains has quantum properties that could provide a promising model for a stable, scalable quantum computer.

The group adopted a joint declaration against marine plastic pollution and stressed the importance of a regional trade pact on Saturday

The former Liverpool striker said his last professional game will be on August 23 against Vissel Kobe.

While opposing the Bill, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor had said the Bill does nothing to improve the status of Muslim women.

World Cup 2019: India had faith in death bowlers, says Kedar Jadhav

Three firefighters sustained minor burns and at least 49 people were forced out of their homes following an apartment fire in Glassmanor near National Harbor, Maryland.

Teairra Mari has another run-in with the law.
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Meqafun Entertainment CentBaku/23.06.19/Turan: Eight people were injured, including three children as a result of an explosion of helium balloons on the evening of June 22 in the entertainment center "Meqafun". This caused an instantaneous outbreak of fire, but the fire did not occur, according to the Ministry of Emergency. Firefighters and special risk services arrived at the scene immediately. The eight injured people were sent home after providing medical ...

Led by gadget lover Modi who is on Apple family of devices, his second-in-command and Union Home Minister Amit Shah is currently using a brand new Apple XS.