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Can you raise your IQ score?
Is it possible to have a higher IQ by training?
What is the highest IQ in the world (and should you actually care?)
A high IQ is a nice head start -- but it's far from telling the whole story.
Is it brain size, or brain-to-body size that makes animals intelligent? Birds suggest it’s both, actually
Despite their 'bird-brains', some birds are among the most intelligent animals on the planet.
Intelligence and life expectancy go hand-in-hand for parrots
These birds live exceptionally long lives for their size. Smarts may be their secret.
Rocket scientists and brain surgeons aren’t actually smarter than the general population
Making it in professions typically seen as "very clever" may be more about hard work than innate cognitive abilities.
A window to the brain? Pupil size linked to intelligence
A window to the brain? Pupil size linked to intelligence
Children in greener urban areas have a higher IQ and fewer behavioral issues
More reasons to be living near parks and green areas.
Researchers teach AI to design, say it did ‘quite good’ but won’t steal your job (yet)
The AI is "learning how people solve a specific type of problem and creating new design solutions from scratch."
Paper wasps capable of behavior that we consider part of logical reasoning
Buzz in excitement for this piece of news!
Your romantic partner probably isn’t as smart as you think
People tend to over-estimate their spouse's intelligence (as well as their own).
Orangutans don’t use tools instinctively — they actually think about what they’re doing
Give an orangutan a banana and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a stick and he'll poke bananas ...
Orangutans can ‘talk’ about the past and the future, study suggests
We used to believe this is a human-only perk.
Cockatoos can create and manipulate tools, study suggests
Bird-brain? Hardly an insult.
Smart on a budget: researchers design free IQ test that takes 10 minutes to complete
"Our test, available for free, levels the playing field for a vast number of researchers interested in using it," the ...
Angry people are more likely to overestimate their intelligence — but that’s not the whole story
Results are intriguing, but psychologists are faced with a weird problem.
Scientists found nearly 1,000 new genes linked to intelligence
Intelligent people tend to live longer but are more vulnerable to autism and depression.
Wearing glasses might really mean you’re smarter, new study finds
Glasses can drastically change a person's appearance.
Too much of a good thing: very smart executives are less able leaders
Intelligence positively correlates with good leadership -- but only up to a point.
What creature plans and understands what’s in store? Quoth the raven, Nevermore
They've outsmarted all primates, and even four-year-old children.
Major study explored the biology of human intelligence and found 40 new genes that play a role
What shall we do with this information?
More evidence adds up to support the intelligence of elephants
Researchers have shown that Asian elephants are even smarter than we thought.
Artificial intelligence can write classical music like a human composer. It’s the first non-human artist whose music is now copyrighted
The 21st century biggest musical prodigy might turn out to be a machine.
Football-playing bees exhibit complex learning
Researchers have trained bumblebees to score goals using a mini-ball.
Natural selection is weeding out our drive to go to school, study reports
Not a good sign for a race hoping to colonize space.
Newborn ducklings are capable of abstract thought
It turns out that ducklings are a lot smarter than we thought.
Turns out goats and dogs aren’t that different when communicating with humans
There's a lot more going on under those horns than you'd think.
Humans got smarter to care for needy infants, making them more helpless in the process
University of Rochester researchers developed a new evolutionary model that suggests human intelligence developed to meet the demands of our ...
You don’t need a brain to learn, scientists found
A new study from the University of Toulouse found that intelligence and learning aren't limited to organisms with brains. By ...
Octopus genome finally unraveled, and this is a big deal
The mystery of the octopus genome has finally been solved, and this will allow researchers to answer some intriguing questions: ...
The NSA is gathering so much data, it’s become swamped and ironically ineffective at preventing terrorism
One of the most famous NSA whistleblowers (or the 'original NSA whistleblower'), William Binney, said the agency is collecting stupendous ...
Autism genes predict higher intelligence – if you’re not autistic in the first place
A link between heightened intelligence and autism has been suspected by scientists based on empirical evidence, and now genetic screening ...
Your smartphone might be making you stupid
People who excessively rely on their smartphones scored lower on tests which gauged cognitive abilities like analytical thinking than those ...
Intelligent people are more likely to trust others
Is there a connection between intelligence and how likely you are to trust people? According to Oxford researchers, the answer ...
‘Brain Training’ May Boost Working Memory, But Not Intelligence
Improve your memory, improve your reasoning and observational skills, and many more - brain training games are becoming more and ...
Smart amoebas reveal origins of primitive intelligence
Intelligence is very hard to define as a trait, as it's usually a simplified term used to describe a quantum ...
Human intelligence – a luxury?
I've always been fascinated by intelligence as a human trait. Smarter and more intelligent people seem to have this ...
Breastfeeding Associated With Increased Intelligence
Or at least this is what a study conducted by scientists from Mcgill suggests. They made the largest study ...
