Who's smarter, boys or girls? That's a difficult question, considering the cultural biases that have shaped the way we think of both sexes over thousands of years. But with modern science, we can study tiny differences...

Trust me, this isn't unusual, even in humans. You...  ...l, even in humans. You might think you're testing intelligence , but some subjects just don't care. Therefore, yo...

(The Stupid t-shirt on sale at the NeatoShop)What...  ...idity and published their findings in the journal Intelligence . Real Clear Science quotes their article:The firs...

Image: Julien Tromeur/Shutterstock We all know that being overweight is bad for your health, but results from a new study show that it can also be bad for your brain. In fact, it can make you stupider. From...

(Photo: Pop!Tech)In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gla...  ...chologists and published in the scholarly journal Intelligence , practice can only do so much to advance an indiv...  ...t least in these two most-studied areas), such as intelligence , starting age, personality, and other genetic fac...

Idiocracy wasn't a movie, but a documentary. Geral...  ...iversity College London thinks that trying to tie intelligence to mutation count is a stretch:“I could jus...

Drink a lot of alcohol? That's because y...  ...notonic association between childhood intelligence (measured before the age of 16) and the frequency...

One's IQ is akin to one's income or weight: you don't brag about it, and it's rude to ask about it. But celebrities have a hard time keeping anything secret, especially when they've graduated from Yale or MIT. Then there...

Don't blame me for the title, but perhaps it's best that Ohio State University researchers politely stated their study result as thus: Women who are obese before they become pregnant...

If you do lots of push-ups, you...  ...d to improve scores on tests of fluid intelligence in as little as four weeks. Follow-up studies...