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Bright Anwita Patil amazed her parents after excelling in the Mensa test

Anwita Patil was 11 when she took the test with Mensa, the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world - she received a score of 162 while Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking were believed to have IQs of 160

Connie Passmore died three weeks before her 60th birthday in 2018, with her daughter Holly planning to raise funds for MND Scotland in her memory.

The tragic mum, who worked in the Scottish travel industry and later became a stay-at-home parent to Holly and Jack 22, died in April 2018, three weeks before her 60th birthday.

Thomas Hertog worked with cosmologist on a new book after he shared his doubts about A Brief History of Time

Anwita's mathematician mum decided there was something unusual happening when her little girl started beating her to the answers to complex maths problems

The Chancellor is delivering his first full budget as thousands of junior doctors continue to strike. The last time junior doctors took part in industrial action was in 2016, after Jeremy Hunt's controversial 'seven-day NHS' plan

‘People who boast about their IQ are losers’

Most people are familiar with the deluge of artificial intelligence (AI) apps that seem designed to make us more efficient and creative. We’ve got apps that take text prompts and generate art, and the controversial ChatGPT, which raises serious questions about originality, misinformation and plagiarism.

If life is common in our Universe, and we have every reason to suspect it is, why do we not see evidence of it everywhere? Black holes may hold an answer.

Elon Musk has warned that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) could pose a potential existential threat to humanity.