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Do You Love This Face?

by Brad Lemley

If you think that physical appeal is strictly a matter of personal taste and cultural bias, think again. Who you find attractive, say psychobiologists, is largely dictated by evolutionary needs and hardwired into your brain

Hanging by a Thread

by Richard Stone, Gary Braasch

With all but a quarter of Hawaii's native birds extinct or endangered, and its other species dying off faster than the dinosaurs, some island ecologists are risking their lives to save what's left

by Gary Taubes, David Fukumoto

When Roy Walford was just a boy, he figured out that science could fix his biggest complaint: Life is too short

Morals, Apes, and Us

by Marc D. Hauser, Victor Juhasz

Can animals learn to share, cooperate, punish, and show empathy?

Let Sleeping Dogs Arise

by Jack McClintock, Catherine Karnow

The discovery of an abnormal gene in narcoleptic pooches may soon lead to relief for millions of people who suffer from chronic insomnia

Name That Star!

by Alan Burdick

When our writer set out to hang his name upon a celestial body, he never imagined he would have to navigate such an Earthbound bureaucracy

DEPARTMENTS

by Robert Kunzig

I look upon synesthesia as a gift-a memory device that helps me recall numbers, names, and the stuff of life'

by Leslie Bernstein

Why was my patient suddenly falling apart after decades of healthy living?

DATA

by Brad Lemley

Machines that turn ideas into objects are reshaping everything from Camrys to computers

by Bob Berman

This month's 29th day halts the disorienting creep of the seasons

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