At school there was always one pupil who seemed to excel in every subject, from maths to literature and music. Scientists call this phenomenon 'general intelligence' or the 'g factor' – and for the ...

For years, people believed intelligence was just one thing — a score, a number, a measure of how “smart” someone was. But walk into any classroom and you’ll see something completely different. One ...

Many people find the idea that there are many different types of intelligence very appealing. Howard Gardner disparages IQ tests as having limited relevance to real life and argued that there may be ...

Perhaps you’ve not given much thought to how you know what you know. Maybe you’ve grouped knowledge and intelligence together, as a unidimensional proficiency, beneath a single umbrella, like ...

For decades, intelligence was measured by the famous IQ, the intelligence quotient that summarizes in a single number our ability to solve logical problems or use language accurately. While the IQ ...

When Jane Goodall arrived at Tanzania's Gombe Stream in 1960, she carried neither a doctoral degree nor conventional scientific training. What she possessed was something far more useful: the ...

Ever suspected you're the smartest person in the room? Well, experts now think there are five ways to determine someone's intelligence and only one of them is IQ. Two science YouTubers Mitch Moffit, a ...