Almost everybody can relate to a state of “being or falling in love” even though it is difficult to define love. Love may be a strong, passionate affection for a person. Hence, the Oxford English Dictionary defines love as an intense feeling of deep affection or fondness for a person or a thing, a sexual passion, or sexual relations. Thus, love is an emotion often associated with consensual sex...

This pragmatic study examines love as a mode of communication. Our focus is on the receiver side: what makes an individual feel loved and how felt love is defined through daily interactions. Our aim is to explore everyday life scenarios in which people might experience love, and to consider people's converging and diverging judgments about which scenarios indicate felt love. We apply a cognitiv...

Theorists such as Farber argue that in adolescence passionate love first appears in all its intensity. Both adolescence and passion are "intense, overwhelming, passionate, consuming, exciting, and confusing". As yet, however, clinicians have been given little guidance as to how to deal with adolescents caught up in their passionate feelings. Nor has there been much research into the nature of p...

A Quick guide to Love Spots: striking male-specific regions of the eye found in some insects that are used for detecting and chasing females.

The British government said it would consult the public on its decision whether or not to block the introduction of genetically modified crops following analysis of a series of field trials which will be completed this month. But their efforts have drawn scorn from the media and opponents as Nigel Williams reports.

Abdelnaby Khalyfa1,3,*, Mohamed Buazza3, He Qiang2, Min Xu4, Charles Taylor Marshall1, Fred J. Roisen1, Kathleen M. Klueber1, Nigel GF Cooper1 Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, GE HealthCare, (Microarray Applications Development, Pisca...

Ten years after the key Earth Summit in Rio, a key group of influential politicians in Britain are flagging up the need to support research into taxonomy as a basis for biodiversity studies ahead of this summer's meeting in South Africa. Nigel Williams reports.

Editor Nigel Dodd, London School of Economics Book Review Editors Mark Lutter, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Sascha Münnich, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Editorial Board Patrik Aspers, Stockholm University Jens Beckert, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne Johan Heilbron, Centre de Sociologie Européenne, Paris Richard Swedberg, Cornell Un...

This article provides a glimpse at Nigel Kalton’s contribution to interpolation of Banach spaces. Examples and concepts which look unrelated at first sight, such as quasi-linear maps, non-trivial twisted sums and interpolating operators are shown to be relevant to the same theory.

It's clear that one thing that would boost scientific input to the issue of biodiversity would be evidence that researchers can model effectively the large-scale behaviour of ecosystems. A new issue of a prestigious journal aims to explore just that. Nigel Williams reports.