Moscow and Havana have reportedly reached an agreement on reopening the SIGINT facility in Lourdes, Cuba, once Russia’s largest foreign base of this kind which was shut down in 2001 due to financial problems and under US pressure. When operational, the facility was manned by thousands of military and intelligence personnel, whose task was to intercept signals coming from and to the US territory... 

The US Air Force is testing a large, top secret drone at Area 51, which outdoes the currently used unmanned aircrafts in terms of stealth and aerodynamic efficiency, US media report. The new superior drone is scheduled to enter production and may be operational for the US Air Force as early as 2015, an exclusive report by Aviation Week magazine said. According to unnamed defense and intelligence officials,... 

Necessary nutrient: While it’s a mandatory addition to table salt, many sea salts and kosher salts don’t have iodine added A new study indicates that Americans gained up to 15 IQ points after the addition of iodine to salt became mandatory. In an effort to prevent goiter related to iodine deficiency, authorities ruled that iodine be added to U.S. salt products in 1924. The iodine, in addition... 

A new study conducted by the American researchers suggests that children’s afternoon short sleep grants them to have better learning power. The new study shows that naps are critical for memory consolidation and early learning among the kids particularly for those ones who are three to-five-year-olds. Sleep researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amhers say an hour-long nap after lunch boosts... 

A new study conducted by researchers from Brown University has demonstrated that breastfeeding plays significant role in brain development in infants. The research team analyzed the brain growth in a sample group of children by specialized, baby-friendly magnetic resonance imaging quiet MRI when they were asleep, according to paper published in the journal NeuroImage. They observed 133 babies ranging... 

The CIA is considering a secret contingency plan to expand the US drone strikes to Syria, former and current American officials say. The officials said the Counterterrorism Center, which runs CIA’s drone operations in Pakistan and Yemen, has recently tasked some of its agents to collect further intelligence on the situation in Syria, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday. The targeting officers,... 

The Dutch nonprofit company Mars One is planning to establish a human settlement in the Red Planet by 2023, International Business Times has reported. The company released its basic astronaut requirements for the plan to call not only scientists or pilots but anyone who is at least 18 years old. Recruiting is scheduled to begin later this year during a televised global selection process based on some... 

Superhumans, supercities and supercomputers: US intelligence’s vision of 2030 Things are about to get a little weird. This according to the National Intelligence Council, at least, a US-based coalition of spy agencies that has just released its predictions for what’s in store for the Earth in 2030. The NIC released on Monday “Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds,” an 140-page report that... 

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 25, 2012. Qatar has become the major supplier of weaponry and funds to the terrorist Free Syrian Army fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Large amounts of money and weapons are being transferred from Lebanon to Syria by a network of Qatari intelligence... 

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... 

Beautiful mind: Jason Padgett sees mathematical formulas and turns them into stunning, intricate diagrams he can draw by hand A college dropout has been hailed a unique maths genius – after his brain was damaged in a brutal attack by muggers. Jason Padgett, 41, was left concussed after he was ambushed outside a karaoke club and repeatedly kicked in the head. Now, wherever he looks, he sees mathematical... 

A frame grab obtained from a video aired on the Iranian television on December 18, 2011 shows Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, the CIA operative recently detained in the Islamic Republic. Iran has sentenced to death CIA operative Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, who was earlier arrested by Iran’s intelligence forces on charges of committing acts of espionage on behalf of the US. The verdict was issued by Tehran’s... 

There have been no official comments by the U.S. authorities on the exposure of CIA spy networks in the Middle East. Several dozen spies working for the CIA in Iran and Lebanon have been caught, ABC News said, citing U.S. officials with connections to the intelligence community. According to an exclusive ABC report on Monday, “the spies were paid informants recruited by the CIA for two distinct espionage... 

Iranian women hold pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei outside the former US embassy in Tehran on November 4, 2011 Iran has made computer models of a nuclear warhead, says IAEA report on Tehran’s suspected nuclear activities, due to be published next week. Meanwhile, Iran is set to unveil documents accusing the US of links with terror groups. The UN nuclear agency is planning to reveal... 

Research Reveals Genetic Link to Human Intelligence A recent study mainly conducted in the University of Manchester has revealed the first direct biological evidence for a genetic contribution to people’s thinking skills. University of Manchester scientists in collaboration with colleagues in Edinburgh and Australia, by testing people’s DNA for genetic variations, found out the existence...