It’s a chilling thought–UC Davis psychology professor Dean Keith Simonton, who has studied the topic of genius for three decades–has just published an essay in Nature that argues that scientific ...

In this, the average score of people doing IQ tests is slowly progressing upwards over time, which requires the results of the IQ tests to be re-scaled over time. This means that if you were to take ...

But while the romantic and adventurous appeal of these field trips is clear, it’s more difficult to reckon with the work those trips actually produced. Nabokov made more than 1,000 technical drawings ...

Findings of minimal occupational inheritance from parents to offspring among Nobel laureates in the natural sciences, together with similar findings in our previous study of literary prizewinners ...

Modern-day science has little room for the likes of Galileo, who first used the telescope to study the sky, or Charles Darwin, who put forward the theory of evolution, argues a psychologist and expert ...

Dean Keith Simonton's contention that scientific genius is extinct (Nature 493, 602; 2013) invites comparison with Lord Kelvin's famous speech to the British Association for the Advancement of Science ...

Modern-day science has little room for the likes of Galileo, who first used the telescope to study the sky, or Charles Darwin, who put forward the theory of evolution, argues a psychologist and expert ...