Do You Love This Face?
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
by Brad Lemley
Let Sleeping Dogs Arise
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!
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
Hanging by a Thread
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
Staying Alive
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
Can animals learn to share, cooperate, punish, and show empathy?