Love in the Time of Science

If seeing the one you love makes your heart skip a beat, should you see a cardiologist?

Google “sea urchin fertilization” and you’ll find dozens of animations and videos of lone sea urchin sperm finding its way home to an egg 

The same technological advances that shrank telephones miniaturized heart monitors, with far-reaching implications for heart health.

In case you didn't already know this, your brain on love is crazy

From a glance at the statistics, it’s clearthat millennials are commitment-phobes compared with their parents and grandparents

Check your assumptions, be curious, suspend judgment and know when you’ve had enough

The popular idea that women should try to conform or be submissive around men is outdated

Oxytocin, known as the “love hormone,” has a dark side—and it looks like alcohol intoxication

Being nice, paying attention and praising a partner’s strengths all pay off in a long-term relationship

How online dating sites and apps hone their software based on user behavior—and misbehavior—to find your true romance

We're asking for your help again this year to find out more about the challenge that couples face when they both seek good jobs in the same city

Scientists believe that idealizing one's partner can work as a self-fulfilling prophecy, where illusion eventually becomes reality. That is to say, people can help to create the partners they wish they had, by exaggerating their virtues and minimizing their faults in their own minds.

I have been called a little owl, a swan and even a "panda-fish." No, I'm not a supernatural, shape-shifting creature or a character in a children's storybook.

It’s no secret: creativity is sexy. People all over the world rank creativity as a highly desirable quality in a partner, and people who are creative across a variety of fields report more sexual partners (similar results have been found in specific fields such as visual art, music, and humor).

Many of you have likely noticed that I have been on an extended hiatus from blogging due to an especially crazy 2014, filled with lots of big events and life changes that have kept me exceptionally busy.

Observing behavior can be part of loving dogs

A 10-second makeout session can also transfer some 80 million oral bacteria. Dina Fine Maron reports

In honor of Valentines Day, Id like to take a quick look at one of the most fundamental human emotions hate. Wait, that doesnt seem right.

Our love affair with chocolate is nothing new, but in recent years scientists have tried to uncover the source of our cocoa cravings. Scientific American editor Dina Fine Maron digs through the available evidence, looking for a morsel of truth.

February is the most anxious month. Every year at this time, I agonize over the Valentine’s Day Dilemma. What should I do to show my girlfriend, “Emily,” how much I love her?

The World of Dog revolves around humans. If youre a companion dog, who you socialize with, when you frolic in the park, and whether or not you procreate are often determined by someone with two legs.

“What does woman want?” Freud once whined. Turns out quite a few women want fantasy sex with T. rex, Sasquatch or a boar-headed god.

A survey reveals many American couples are still "intensely in love" even after a decade together--and hints at the reasons why