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Innovations in the game of love

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From neurons to nanobytes, scientists are discovering more about why we fall in love, while technologists are discovering new ways to help us find the loves of our lives.

The chemicals in the brain that govern addiction play a nearly identical role in love. "The brain activity that corresponds with those feelings of intense, euphoric pleasure, is similar to the way the brain responds to cocaine or heroin," neuroscientist David Linden writes. Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post

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