It’s in your eyes! People with large pupils are more INTELLIGENT, study finds 

It’s in your eyes! People with large pupils are more INTELLIGENT, study finds Researchers tracked pupil size in volunteers taking a range of intelligence tests These covered areas like intelligence, memory retention and the ability to focus  They created a baseline measurement while volunteers looked at a blank screen They found that those with larger … Read more

Animals: Experts teach pigs how to play VIDEO GAMES, showing swine are more intelligent than thought

Pigs are capable of learning how to play simple video games, scientists have demonstrated, showing the animals to be more intelligent than was thought. Researchers from Canada taught four pigs to manipulate a joystick with their snouts, moving a cursor on a screen around to reach one of up to four target walls. Each of … Read more

Virgin Media launches new ‘intelligent wifi’ to improve wireless connections 

Virgin media has launched new intelligent wifi and smart pods designed to boost connections for people working and studying from home during lockdown.  Customers can expect speeds up to three times faster around the home when the new equipment is combined with enhanced wifi features on its routers, the firm said. The pods are designed to be … Read more

Anton du Beke calls for ‘brainless’ influencers to be more ‘intelligent’ online

Anton du Beke calls for ‘brainless’ influencers to be more ‘intelligent’ with their social media presence and not spread misinformation By Charlotte Dean For Mailonline Published: 17:56 GMT, 7 January 2021 | Updated: 17:56 GMT, 7 January 2021 Anton du Beke has made a call for influencers and reality stars to be more aware of … Read more

Scientists say intelligent life on other planets is ‘exceptionally rare’

Scientists say intelligent life on other planets is ‘exceptionally rare’, and that human-like civilisations are unlikely to exist away from Earth.  In a new paper, Oxford researchers theorise that, for life to have evolved the same way elsewhere in the universe, it would have taken longer than the whole of Earth’s projected lifespan.  Evolution on … Read more

Scientists say intelligent life on other planets is ‘exceptionally rare’

Scientists say intelligent life on other planets is ‘exceptionally rare’ and that human-like civilisations are unlikely to exist away from Earth.  In a new paper, Oxford researchers theorise that, for life to have evolved the same way somewhere else, it would have taken longer than the whole of Earth’s projected lifespan.  Evolution on Earth from … Read more

‘Sentient’ homes and ‘intelligent’ food could feature in the lives of our children 30 years from now

It is never easy to predict what society and technology will look like in the coming decades, but one futurist used the imaginations of children to come up with ideas. Futurist Brian David Johnson spoke to kids aged 8-13 as part of a study into their vision of life in the 2050s  for the Institution … Read more

Artificially intelligent humanoid robot ‘Erica’ nabs lead role in $70 million Hollywood sci-fi movie

The next Marilyn Monrobot? Artificially intelligent humanoid ‘Erica’ nabs the lead role in a $70 million Hollywood sci-fi movie The eerily human-like robot with play the role of a superhuman in the film,’b‘ The character will go on the run with the scientist who helped to create her Erica — who made her public debut … Read more

More than 30 intelligent alien races could be living in our galaxy

More than 30 intelligent alien races could be living in our galaxy at an average distance of 17,000 light years, study suggests Astronomers at University of Nottingham claimed there could be 36 civilisations But they also cautioned that if these are short lived – Earth may be alone Intelligent civilisations were defined as those sending … Read more

Young birds that spend longer with their parents are more intelligent

Parents really are the best teachers: Young birds that spend longer in the family unit grow up smarter, study shows Siberian jays in Sweden and New Caledonian crows off Australia’s coast studied Those that stayed with their parents for longer developed more skills than others Crows also spent about a year teaching fledglings how to … Read more