They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Actually, say UCLA researchers, it can.

If you had a choice between receiving $1,000 right now or $4,000 ten years from now, which would you pick? Psychologists use the term “delay discounting” to describe our inability to resist the temptation of a smaller immediate reward in lieu of receiving a larger reward at a later date.

A newly declassified intelligence budget showed that the U.S. government spent $43.5 billion (EUR30.23 billion) on intelligence in 2007.

Nobel laureate James Watson has retired from his post at a prestigious research institution. Watson, who sparked an international furor last week with comments about intelligence levels among Africans, and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York announced his departure Thursday.

A primary mystery puzzling neuroscientists – where in the brain lies intelligence? – just may have a unified answer.

The Mozart Effect, a 1997 theory by Don Campbell, states that listening to classical music, more specifically, music by Mozart, increases intelligence. Though results are often debated, research continues to support the idea. In 2005, students taking the SAT with prior coursework in music appreciation scored 60 points higher on the verbal and 39 points higher on the math portion of the test.

When it comes to estimating the intelligence of various animal species, it may be as simple measuring overall brain size. In fact, making corrections for a species' body size may be a mistake. The findings were reported by researchers at Grand Valley State University and the Anthropological Institute and Museum at the University of ZÑŒrich, Switzerland.

Although intelligence is generally thought to play a key role in children's early academic achievement, aspects of children's self-regulation abilities-including the ability to alternately shift and focus attention and to inhibit impulsive responding--are uniquely related to early academic success and account for greater variation in early academic progress than do measures of intelligence.