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The Rest of the World Report | Sunday, June 14, 2026 — Good News Sunday Edition

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YOUR BRAIN IS NOT DONE WITH YOU

For a long time the assumption was simple and grim: past a certain age, your brain starts to go, and there isn’t much you can do about it. A three-year study from the University of Texas at Dallas, published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, says that assumption is wrong…

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