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Health

The Genius Within: How to be smart in the 21st century

Boosting IQ is a hot topic in self-improvement. But a riveting new read leaves some big questions hanging

Culture

A person's brain and DNA

Humans

Found: more than 500 genes that are linked to intelligence

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How 51¶¯Âþ readers predicted the Oscar winners

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How 51¶¯Âþ readers predicted the Oscar winners

Features

Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

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Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

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Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

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Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

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Life

Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future

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Humans

The tamed ape: were humans the first animal to be domesticated?

Features

An X chromosome from someone with fragile X syndrome

Health

CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability

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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

Humans

Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

A cache of stone tools found in south India reveals that the hominins living there over 170,000 years ago already had advanced tool-making skills  

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Effortless thinking: Why we're all born to be status quo fans

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Technology

Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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