It’s not easy to pick out a psychopath. Although both are subheadings of antisocial personality disorder, psychopaths have one key difference over sociopaths: their inability to feel emotions and make emotional attachments. Despite this inability, they are much like social chameleons; they learn to mimic the emotions of others, appearing normal and blending in seamlessly into society. Many people close to psychopaths don’t even know their true nature until they’ve outed themselves through heinous acts. Read full article here
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‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here