Left-wing extremists often have strong psychopathic and narcissistic traits and use their “anti-racist” struggle to vent their sadistic tendencies and grandiose self-images. That’s according to a new study, reports the New York Post. The new study is published in the scientific journal Current Psychology. The researchers describe left-wing extremists as people with “dark personalities”... 

Researchers in the United States have developed a new method for controlling the brain circuits associated with complex animal behaviours, using genetic engineering to create a magnetised protein that activates specific groups of nerve cells from a distance. Understanding how the brain generates behaviour is one of the ultimate goals of neuroscience – and one of its most difficult questions. In... 

The UK Defense Ministry is actively looking for a contractor for its new psychological research, which is allegedly aimed at boosting troops’ performance and well-being. Some details of the project are quite unnerving, though. The ministry’s agency known as the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has been seeking contributions from specialists in the fields of psychiatry, neuroscience... 

Patents recently issued to Google provide a window into their development activities. While it’s no guarantee of a future product, it is a sure indication of what’s of interest to them. What we’ve given up in privacy to Google, Facebook, and others thus far is minuscule compared to what is coming if these companies get their way. These patents tell us that Google is developing smart-home products... 

Some 5,000 different personality traits can be explored based on the person’s handwriting, according to the research from the National Pen Company in the United States. According to the study the behavioral profile can be determined based on the process of analyzing a person’s handwriting which is called graphology. The recent study dubbed infographic analyzes the way each person spaces letters... 

Many scientific studies try to discover how and why some are more intelligent than others. Undoubtedly, intelligence can be simply summarized as the ability for problem-solving, which is constitutional, that is, the individual is born with it, and over time, it us enhanced by experience and knowledge of solutions. But if we are born with our determined intelligence, is it necessarily inherited? The... 

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gestures during a news conference with Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. The United States and Australia pledged Saturday to tighten security ties and work together to influence the behavior of an increasingly assertive China. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Australian Foreign Minister...