Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine have uncovered an interesting and simple test to predict risk of future memory problems. According to this fascinating study, those who are willing to predict whether or not they will suffer from memory loss in future, can now predict it by going through a simple test. Researchers studied 1,000 individuals with an average age of 69 without reported memory loss issues in the past.
Russian pilots accidentally bombed their own city of Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border. A Russian Sukhoi-34 fighter-jet bombed a city square causing a 20-meter crater. Three people were injured, and several buildings collapsed nearby, according to the local administration.
An employee gunman kills five at a bank in Louisville. The suspect, Connor Sturgeon, was an employee of the bank where he livestreamed his shootout on Instagram, the police said. While exchanging fire, two police officers were also severely hurt when he was shot in the brain by the suspect.
A Japanese black hawk helicopter was reported missing after it disappeared from the radar, carrying ten people. The helicopter is reported to have crashed in the sea, north of Miyako island, where the helicopter was patrolling the waters. After a search and rescue operation, the Japanese military spotted parts of the helicopter floating in the ocean.
Russia has detained a US journalist accusing him of spying for the US. The journalist Evan Gershkovich has been working as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, the international daily newspaper based in New York.
Cocaine use has drastically increased in Europe, a European monitoring agency said. Researchers from the Europe-wide SCORE group, along with the EU drugs agency, collected wastewater samples from 54 million people and around 104 cities across Europe. The results revealed that major cities like major European cities like Belgium, Spain, Portugal has a drug problem.
World has known ‘Cheetah’ as the world’s fastest animal. But a specific bird outnumbers Cheetah as being the world’s fastest animal on earth. The Peregrine falcon is considered to be the world’s fastest animal on the planet earth with a speed of more than 200 mph.
Students were told to evacuate the building after a package exploded on campus at Northeastern University causing minor injuries to a 45-year-old staff member. The injured was immediately taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of his hands.
It’s been 18 years since Gmail came into service. Since then it has taken shape of the largest email service on the planet with 1.5 billion daily users. Now, to celebrate its 18th birthday Google is giving the mail service a new look by integrating its other platforms like Meet, Chat, and Space with it.
The planned takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk is in “serious jeopardy”, according to a report, sending shares in the company 4% lower in after-hours trading on Wall Street.
Musk’s team has stopped certain discussions around funding for the $44bn deal, according to a report, citing three people familiar with the matter. The report said Musk had concluded that Twitter’s figures on spam accounts – a bone of contention in the deal – were not verifiable.
Black holes are the gluttons of the cosmos, devouring everything that veers too close — including light itself. Now, an international team of researchers says they have discovered a supermassive black hole that gobbles up the equivalent of one Earth every second.
An experimental cancer-killing virus has been administered to a human patient for the first time, with hopes the testing will ultimately reveal evidence of a new means of successfully fighting cancer tumors in people’s bodies. The drug candidate, called CF33-hNIS (aka Vaxinia), is what’s called an oncolytic virus, a genetically modified virus designed to selectively infect and kill cancer cells while sparing healthy ones.
