What's happening?

Zita chews her pencil in frustration. She cannot get the sum to work. Is there anything worse than love homework? At this rate she will never find her soulmate!

The reason why one person falls in love with another is hard to pin down. It is said that opposites attract - but now scientists in the USAThe United States of America is a country in North America. It has a population of 329 million. say this is not true.

A team of scientists at a university in ColoradoA state in the west of the US that contains much of the Rocky Mountains. studied 133 traitsA person's characteristics or qualities. in nearly 80,000 couples. They found that for over 80% of the traits, partners were likely to be similar.

The most common ones were age, beliefs, intelligenceHow clever someone is. and level of education.

They are not the only people studying love. The maths teacher and TV star Bobby Seagull wanted to find out how many women there were he might marry. He worked out that there were nearly 30,000 women who lived near him and that he might like.

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But they also had to be single and like him back - which left him with a final number of 73!

Could there be an equation for love?

Yes! Love is all about science. When people fall in love, chemical reactions are happening in their body. And science can tell us who you might fall in love with.

No! Some things cannot be explained by science. Even two people who are very similar might not get along!