How to be superhuman: The science behind extraordinary abilities
12 December 2019
Rowan Hooper asks special guests what it feels like to be exceptional. And what does it take to get there?
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Race science: How dangerous and discredited ideas persist in biology
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Angela Saini and Lilian Anekwe explore the troubling ways in which scientific racism is re-entering the mainstream
Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science
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If we know the idea of difference based purely on race is wrong, why do we still hang on to the idea of race in science, asks science writer Angela Saini.
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As tests that screen embryos for complex traits become available, it's time to decide how to use these ethically – and where to draw the line
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Your genes affect which university you go to but that’s no surprise
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Our search for genes associated with brainpower is starting to bear fruit, but isn’t the whole story. Your IQ is influenced by many subtle factors
World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran
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About 3 billion people speak Indo-European languages like English and Hindustani, and it seems the first such tongue was spoken south of the Caucasus mountains
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How well your kids do at school depends in part on the DNA you bequeathed them. What’s not clear is what we should do about this
Found: more than 500 genes that are linked to intelligence
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Intelligence is thought to be up to 80 per cent genetic, but it’s been hard to pin down the genes involved. Now the largest study of its kind has found hundreds
