Exercise 'keeps the mind sharp' in over-50s, study finds

The brain is fed with more oxygen and nutrients, boosting thinking and memory skills.

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[U.S.] Lead Hazards Afflict Thousands as Trump eyes funding cuts

Reuters uncovers hundreds more U.S. areas with child lead-poisoning rates double that found in Flint. Yet cities worry as President Trump plans funding cuts. By M.B. Pell, Joshua Schneyer and Andy Sullivan.

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Why Can Some Blind People Process Speech Far Faster Than Sighted Persons?

Books fly from the shelf as Superman fans the pages in a blur devouring the information at blinding speed. Superhuman mental powers, including his extraordinary sense of hearing and blazing speed-reading, are as vital to Superman as his bullet-beating velocity and steel-bending strength. But it seems Superman isn't the only being with the gift of quickness.

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Introducing the Kitty Hawk Flyer

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Remarkable Image Shows a Martian Crater With NASA's Garbage Still Inside

When NASA’s Opportunity rover landed on Mars in 2004, it settled at the bottom of a crater in an interplanetary hole-in-one shot that would make even a golf champion jealous. When the rover trundled out of its unexpected hole, it left behind its landing platform. Now, 13 years later, we’ve caught our best glimpse yet of this historic landing site and the crap NASA left behind.

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Naked mole-rats ‘turn into plants’ to survive without oxygen, scientists find

It may have missed out on good looks, but the naked mole rat is once again amazing scientists with its fascinating super-powers. By Sarah Knapton.

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Delightfully trippy vintage illustrations of futuristic space colonies

Four decades ago, researchers imagined the self-sufficient, Earth-orbiting spacecrafts of our future

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