Smartest People

Goats get a lot of love on the Internet. They get less in the pages of animal cognition journals. The darlings of such research tend to be primates, whales, dolphins, dogs and horses. Goats, on the other hand, "are not considered to be the smartest cookies," said Christian Nawroth, an agricultural scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg often came across as one of the smartest people in the room as he jousted with US lawmakers.

Cat people and dog people have long sparred over which species possesses the best brains. But according to a new study published in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, the best way to measure cognitive ability is to tally each animal's neurons.

People around 11-year-old Akhilesh Chandorkar, including his parents, always knew he was smart. But last week they found out he may be among the smartest people around.

After decades of research and nearly a billion dollars, some of the world's smartest people have managed a super-feat: they've detected gravitational wave.

Hedge funds were once the rock stars of the financial industry. The smartest people worked for them. The wealthiest gave them their money. They were an easy path to fortune.

Goats get a lot of love on the Internet. They get less in the pages of animal cognition journals. The darlings of such research tend to be primates, whales, dolphins, dogs and horses. Goats, on the other hand, "are not considered to be the smartest cookies," said Christian Nawroth, an agricultural scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg often came across as one of the smartest people in the room as he jousted with US lawmakers.

Cat people and dog people have long sparred over which species possesses the best brains. But according to a new study published in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, the best way to measure cognitive ability is to tally each animal's neurons.

People around 11-year-old Akhilesh Chandorkar, including his parents, always knew he was smart. But last week they found out he may be among the smartest people around.

After decades of research and nearly a billion dollars, some of the world's smartest people have managed a super-feat: they've detected gravitational wave.

Hedge funds were once the rock stars of the financial industry. The smartest people worked for them. The wealthiest gave them their money. They were an easy path to fortune.