IQ

A new study suggests the global threat of a poisonous metal is undeniable, causing millions of deaths and plummeting IQs.

When people with very high IQs are given moderately difficult task, their brains work more efficiently compared to people with slightly above-average IQs.

Intelligence Quotient or IQ is a way to measure the level of potential ability of people, and as such has links to education and work performance, as well as personal survival.

We’re getting more stupid. That’s one point made in a recent article in the New Scientist, reporting on a gradual decline in IQs in developed countries such as the U.K., Australia, and the Netherlands. Such research feeds into a long-held fascination with testing human intelligence. Yet such debates are too focused on IQ as a lifelong trait that can’t be changed. Other research is beginning to show the opposite.

It may be possible to selectively manipulate our ability to learn by sending a mild electrical current to the brain, a new study suggests.

Georgia’s attorney general asked the State Supreme Court to revoke the current stay of execution for Warren Lee Hill on Friday, July 26.

13-year-old 162 IQ? A 13-year-old with a 162 IQ--higher than scientist Stephen Hawking--lives in southwestern London.

Research at Cambridge has found a connection linking a person’s Facebook likes to his personality.

A new study suggests the global threat of a poisonous metal is undeniable, causing millions of deaths and plummeting IQs.

When people with very high IQs are given moderately difficult task, their brains work more efficiently compared to people with slightly above-average IQs.

Intelligence Quotient or IQ is a way to measure the level of potential ability of people, and as such has links to education and work performance, as well as personal survival.

We’re getting more stupid. That’s one point made in a recent article in the New Scientist, reporting on a gradual decline in IQs in developed countries such as the U.K., Australia, and the Netherlands. Such research feeds into a long-held fascination with testing human intelligence. Yet such debates are too focused on IQ as a lifelong trait that can’t be changed. Other research is beginning to show the opposite.

It may be possible to selectively manipulate our ability to learn by sending a mild electrical current to the brain, a new study suggests.

Georgia’s attorney general asked the State Supreme Court to revoke the current stay of execution for Warren Lee Hill on Friday, July 26.

13-year-old 162 IQ? A 13-year-old with a 162 IQ--higher than scientist Stephen Hawking--lives in southwestern London.

Research at Cambridge has found a connection linking a person’s Facebook likes to his personality.