The story of five-year-old Elias Muthomi was enthralling, if not riveting. An exceptionally high level of intellectual prowess for a kid his age. His grip on matters aviation and clarity on his career ...

Ernest Hemingway once said, "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." It appears that our culture loves the stereotype of the mentally tortured, solitary genius, working through ...

Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. It is a characteristic of children, variously defined, that motivates differences in school programming. It is ...

When psychologist Lewis Terman launched his decades-long study of high-IQ children in 1921, he had a specific goal in mind: to prove that “gifted” people were born leaders, and superior in just about ...

Linda Robinson teaches a gifted fourth-grade class at Fox Road Elementary School in Raleigh in this 2017 file photo. Robinson is the past president of the North Carolina Association for the Gifted and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I've been wondering lately about the link ...