Across classrooms and kitchen tables, adults still talk about “gifted” children as if brilliance were a fragile heirloom that must be protected at all costs. Science points in a different direction.

Music lessons are less likely to make children smarter and more likely to reveal the curiosity and discipline they already ...

Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied Alabama law, which allows judges to consider “evidence of intellectual ...

Children under 10 are not very accurate at judging their own intelligence, according to a large-scale study published in Intelligence. Researchers in Estonia found that younger children’s ...

"I think what you've done is shift this to be all about the IQ test in a way that is not supported by our case law," Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told an attorney representing the state of Alabama.

Dec. 10 (UPI) --The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will consider how states decide if a death penalty candidate is intellectually disabled. At issue is the case against Joseph Clifton Smith of Alabama.

The US Supreme Court will hear Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday, December 10, a death penalty case testing how courts should treat multiple IQ scores when deciding whether a death-row prisoner is ...

Among infants prenatally exposed to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI), those who were also exposed to SSRI while being breastfed showed no reduction in child cognitive performance scores ...

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the execution of people who are intellectually disabled. Next week, on Wednesday ...

The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state prosecutors defend debunked junk science, like bite marks, to keep people in ...

Dec 2 (Reuters) - Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk (NOVOb.CO), opens new tab is planning to test its experimental obesity drug, CagriSema, in overweight children and adolescents, according to a U.S. registry ...

Residents of Athiriver say that many industries and factories spew smoke at night. [Gardy Chacha/Standard] A new research featured in the abstract book of the World Conference on Lung Health (WCLH) ...