11-year-old beats Stephen Hawking in Mensa IQ test

Plus: Meet Rimac's Nevera, officially the fastest EV in production. Nov 17, 2022 [Blueprint]( Together with Stand back, [there’s a new kid in town](. An 11-year-old has beaten Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein in an IQ test. Yusuf Shah, a Year 6 student at Wigton Moor Primary School in the U.K., took the Mensa IQ test on a whim, really. He wanted to know how he would rank against other people who take the test. And to cut a long story short, he performed so well that he came in the top one percent and achieved the highest score possible. Which means he beat both Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. I’ll just give you a moment to digest that. But before you do, get your teeth into [this video]( which shows that Rimac's Nevera is officially the fastest EV in production, beating Tesla Model S Plaid. Good morning. I’m Alice, an Editor at IE. This is The Blueprint. Let’s get started. [How keeping cool just went green, thanks to solid refrigerants](. 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He was looking at potential high schools and writing admissions tests for grammar schools. It was this that led him to realize that verbal and nonverbal reasoning were also on the IQ test, so he said that was his preparation, of sorts. → So what's next for Yusuf? He is deeply interested in geography and flags, but mathematics is his true passion. His ultimate dream would be to study mathematics at Cambridge or Oxford. [READ MORE [Arrow]]( [Facebook]( [INNOVATION]INNOVATION [3D-printed materials are now more durable thanks to MIT researchers' new heat treatment.]( Created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a new heat treatment [alters the microscopic structure of 3D-printed metals]( making the materials more durable and resistant to thermal shock. [READ MORE [Arrow]]( And Other Stories in Innovation - Alien planets: A [first-of-its-kind observatory]( boost the search for exoplanets. 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