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Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart

Life

Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart

IQ measures the brightness of our mental searchlight. But where we point it also matters

Features

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Health

Lost limb leads to flexible new body image

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Life

High testosterone linked to miserly behaviour

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What's the point of a fake 500-day Mars mission?

Life

What's the point of a fake 500-day Mars mission?

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Mona Lisa's smile a mystery no more

Life

Mona Lisa's smile a mystery no more

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Memory and forgetting in the digital age

Technology

Memory and forgetting in the digital age

Books & Arts

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

Life

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

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Life

Laser creates 'false memories' in fly brains

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Life

Approaching footsteps boost seeing in the dark

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Life

It's official: Your bullying boss really is an idiot

Psychologists show that people turn nasty when influence and incompetence collide

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Life

Bouncing back: How we deal with bereavement

Books & Arts

Life

Time isn't what it used to be

Books & Arts

Life

'Matrix for mice' probes how mental maps are made

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Life

Psychopaths are distracted, not cold-blooded

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