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Mind expanding: Can you increase your IQ?

Life

Mind expanding: Can you increase your IQ?

Like it or not, most of our intelligence is genetic – but there's one part of our brain power that we can count on improving with age

Features

Mind

It would be stupid to ignore a drop in human intellect

Leader

Brain drain: Are we evolving stupidity?

Life

Brain drain: Are we evolving stupidity?

Features

Learn a second language to slow ageing brain's decline

Health

Learn a second language to slow ageing brain's decline

News

The best parents don't try to score top marks

Mind

The best parents don't try to score top marks

CultureLab

Fake brain helps investigate age's intelligence decline

Life

Fake brain helps investigate age's intelligence decline

News

Art's early dawn: When intelligence really began

Life

Art's early dawn: When intelligence really began

Features

Finding the players in the symphony of IQ genes

Life

Finding the players in the symphony of IQ genes

News

Moderate drink during pregnancy can lower baby's IQ

Health

Moderate drink during pregnancy can lower baby's IQ

News

Mind

Why IQs are rising – and why it's deadly serious

IQ scores might be rising, says James Flynn, but we're not getting smarter. Adaptation, culture and attitude all play important parts

Opinion

Life

Death by IQ: US inmates condemned by flawed tests

News

Technology

Crowd IQ is proof that the hivemind is usually best

News

Life

Best evidence yet that a single gene can affect IQ

News

Life

A question of intelligence

Opinion