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Image: Oliver Sved/ Shutterstock. The Guardian : New genetic theory might pave way to understanding human intelligence Scientists fro...

Well connected: Ten per cent of intelligence could be explained by the strength of neural pathways connecting the left lateral prefrontal co...

Brainier Than The Male -- The Telegraph Telegraph View: Women now outperform men on IQ tests. But were they always cleverer, just keeping qu...

In studying a gene that drives cell growth, Project ENIGMA scientists found a variant that boosted gene expression levels (shown as colored ...

From Wall Street Journal: At the beginning of the 20th century the British psychologist Charles Spearman "discovered" the idea of ...

Greater than the sum of its parts (Image: WestEnd61/Rex Features) From New Scientist: If you're a headhunter looking for someone to work...

RAF Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire (Image: Kippa Matthews/Rex Features) From New Scientist: A British art group took New Scientist on a magic...

From The Next Big Future: There are some rare individuals with IQs in the 200's and their brains are not larger than regular people. Hig...

Scientists have tripled the memory of a rat named Hobbie-J (not pictured) by enhancing a single gene, suggesting that similar therapies may ...

There's more to intelligence than just IQ. (Image: David C Ellis/Getty) From New Scientist: IS GEORGE W. BUSH stupid? It's a questio...

Men vs women: Who will top the trivia tree? Answer questions correctly to earn points for your team From The Daily Mail: As competitive fami...

Brain map: Software called BrainLab analyzes data collected during a specialized MRI scan of the author’s brain in order to create a neural ...

Little smasher: Oscar Wrigley is the youngest ever member of Mensa, aged two years and five months From the Daily Mail: While other two-year...

In recent years Adderall and Ritalin, another stimulant, have been adopted as cognitive enhancers. From The Guardian: In America, university...

From The Globe And Mail: Coping with the troubling tradeoff between depth of what we know and how fast we retrieve it may require something ...

From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Sep. 6, 2009) — In laying down the neural circuitry of the developing brain, billions of neurons must firs...

Being smart involves being able to understand the relationships between events, finding and questioning hidden assumptions, and so on. The f...

Autistic musician Derek Paravicini performs his first professional concert at St Georges Hall, Bristol, UK (Image: South West News Service /...

This colorful brain image is like a map of mental speed. The bright spaghetti structures represent the pathways connecting different brain c...

Albert Einstein. Photo from Corbis From Time Magazine: Is it possible to cultivate genius? Could we somehow structure our educational and so...