When John Cacioppo walks around Chicago with his book Loneliness, he hides the cover. “Who wants to go around with a big L on their forehead?” he says. Society, he complains, treats loneliness as a disease. “People think it’s just neuroticism, or it’s people who can’t form relationships,” Cacioppo says. In 15 years of studying social isolation, the University of Chicago psychologist has found that loneliness is just another emotion. “Everybody has the capacity to be lonely, just as everybody has the capacity to feel pain,” he says. And yet in one sense, his work shows ... (p. 26)

Honed measurements show age overshot by amount significant to earliest stage of formation.

Astronomers say this discovery and others suggest that finding habitable planets is 'only a matter of time.' (p. 5)

Surveys, tests of college students shows how surroundings can 'communicate a sense of belonging' or 'exclusion.'

Discovery of a distinctive channel and new calculations of possible water movement suggest a fast and furious flow formed the sea. (p. 5)

Observations of a ‘homeless’ quasar suggest new ideas for galaxy formation. (p. 8)

An analysis of social networks finds that people who feel isolated may spread mistrust among others.

The stars that are just right to support life-bearing planets might be dimmer and longer-lived than the sun.

Data storage system employs a resonance effect to do work.