https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Can you tell if you're working with a narcissist or a psychopath? A new study suggests that people's job choices may offer some clues, especially in fields built on leadership and persuasion such as business, politics, and law, where such darker traits are more common. Those in creative fields or nature-focused work may be more likely to encounter individuals with a Machiavellian way of thinking, according to findings published in Personality and Individual Differences. https://phys.org/news/2026-04-people-dark-personality-traits-naturally.html Social Sciences Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:10:01 EDT news695314226 This week, biologists discovered a new cellular organelle that's like "a new recycling center within the cell." Wild-growing tomatoes in the Galápagos are de-evolving. And geologists at the University of Southampton detected deep Earth pulses beneath Africa. Plus: Brain network functionality differs in people with psychopathic personality; sharks have a surprising vulnerability; and people with the highest measured IQ make better probabilistic predictions than people with the lowest IQ. https://phys.org/news/2025-06-saturday-citations-upside-sharks-brain.html Other Sat, 28 Jun 2025 08:00:02 EDT news670247025 Most humans feel bad about hurting others. This so-called "harm aversion" is key to normal moral development and is reduced in violent antisocial individuals. Unfortunately, little is known about what makes people harm-averse, and medical practitioners lack effective pharmacological treatments for violence in psychopathic criminals characterized by a lack of harm aversion. https://phys.org/news/2020-03-rats.html Plants & Animals Thu, 05 Mar 2020 11:00:02 EST news502622337 How you dress, talk, eat and even what you allow yourself to feel - these often unspoken rules of a group are social norms, and many are internalized to such a degree that you probably don't even notice them. Following norms, however, can sometimes be costly for individuals if norms require sacrifice for the good of the group. How and why did humans evolve to follow such norms in the first place? https://phys.org/news/2017-05-unspoken-group.html Social Sciences Mon, 22 May 2017 15:00:04 EDT news414661391 The conflict between science and religion may have its origins in the structure of our brains, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Babson College have found. https://phys.org/news/2016-03-conflict-science-religion-lies-brains.html Social Sciences Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:00:18 EDT news377953415 There's some truth to the effectiveness of folk remedies and old wives' tales when it comes to serious medical issues, according to findings by a team from Detroit Medical Center. https://phys.org/news/2014-09-ig-nobel-winner-pork-nosebleeds.html Other Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:06:09 EDT news330318358 When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s — initially on automobile assembly lines — computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were designed to perform only the most rigidly predetermined set of repetitive movements. Despite a half-century of exponential growth in computational power, that’s pretty much still the state of industrial robotics. But according to Rodney Brooks, who last year left a tenured position as MIT’s Panasonic Professor of Robotics to focus on his latest company, that may not be true for much longer. https://phys.org/news/2012-04-robot-revolution.html Robotics Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:20:02 EDT news254551325