Intelligence

A new study comparing Velociraptors and their modern counterparts, Komodo dragons and crocodiles, concludes that raptors were unlikely to be social, pack-hunters, in contradiction to their popularized portrayal in the ‘Jurassic Park’ movies.

Many adolescents witness diminishing grades in high school. A behavioral study has helped over 12,500 students change their views on intelligence, thus yielding higher grades among under-performing ninth-graders.

A new study has compared the brains of dogs and cats and found cats wanting. Scientists counted the number of neurons in the cerebral cortex of brains and found that dogs have more than double the number of neurons of a cat. While this doesn’t…

Scholastic success cannot reliably be predicted by snippets of genetic code. [Image: ‘School’ from Paradox 56 under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license]Headlines touting a recently discovered link between particular snippets of DNA and academic success…