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For more than a century, scientists have debated whether intelligence is mostly a product of nature or nurture. Identical ...

A New York Times health reporter explains what makes a good study, and how she knows which papers merit an article.

A new study suggests that people who use both cannabis and tobacco have elevated levels of a key enzyme in their brain ...

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Early research suggests a brain test may predict whether antidepressants will cause sexual dysfunction. There has never been ...

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A systematic review in the British Journal of Sports Medicine finds major inconsistencies in how heading impacts are measured ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now ...