Breaking Up is Hard to Do (Especially When You're a Vole)
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What Is Love?Muramasa via Wikimedia CommonsA meta-look at the complicated (and sometimes contradicting) research on love and relationships. Happy Valentine's Day! Every few months, a new study comes...
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View ArticleBreaking Up is Hard to Do (Especially When You're a Vole)
There's a Vole in the Bucket Voles are prone to heartbreak. Gilles Gonthier (CC Licensed) The cute and cuddly prairie vole, one of only a few mammals that remain monogamous for most of their lives,...
View ArticleDon't Worry, Get Married
Yearbook Page courtesy Dysepsion (GNU Free Documentation License) This is strange: to predict how successful your marriage will be, take out an old yearbook picture of yourself. Are you smiling big,...
View ArticleParents and Adult Children: Mutually Irritating
Our Mom iStockPhoto Investigators at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research have unequivocally demonstrated that our parents often get on our nerves -- and we on theirs. "The...
View ArticleHazards of Space Would Make Sex Up There Tricky, Say NASA Researchers
Solar Flare NASA Here's some futurey Valentine's Day news: Future space colonists would likely be unable to procreate because of the ionizing radiation that permeates the solar system, according to a...
View ArticleStrong Hands and Voice Pitch Really Are Signs of Fertility
Strong, Fertile Hands Flickr/Nationaal ArchiefRecent research tells us that the sound of our voices betrays clues about our age, whether we're menstruating (if we're female), our sexual behavior and...
View Article5 Terrible Things The Internet Does To Our Love Lives
Digital Love Dreamstime If you're the kind of person who's even vaguely aware of Valentine's Day, you're probably either Yelping a good restaurant to take your date to or searching Facebook for...
View ArticleLove Is A Messy Science
What Is Love? Muramasa via Wikimedia CommonsEvery few months, a new study comes out that claims to have unleashed the secrets of human romance. It's a new technique to predict whether a relationship...
View ArticleThese Robots Are In A Relationship (And They Fight All The Time)
Meet Vincent and Emily. They're a robotic couple created by artists Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler and Carolin Liebl as an examination of human relationships. The two machines are programmed to react to sound...
View ArticleMe, Me, Me: People Who Overuse The First-Person Singular Are More Depressed
"Me, Myself, and I" words linked to depression Dreamstime Researchers in Germany have found that people who frequently use first-person singular words like "I,""me," and "myself," are more likely to be...
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View ArticleBreaking Up is Hard to Do (Especially When You're a Vole)
There's a Vole in the BucketGilles Gonthier (CC Licensed)Voles are prone to heartbreak.The cute and cuddly prairie vole, one of only a few mammals that remain monogamous for most of their lives, has...
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