Valentine's Day

The Patents Behind the Roses You Receive on Valentine's Day

You probably never thought of the perennials as inventions, have you?

Melt-Proof Chocolate, 3D Printed Gummies and Other Fascinating Candy Patents

Just in time for Valentine's Day, a quick look at some of the world's most fascinating confectionery innovations

How Frida Kahlo's Love Letter Shaped Romance for Punk Poet Patti Smith

Sealed with a kiss, the 1940 note reflects the "earthly human love" between Kahlo and fellow artist Diego Rivera

Richard Cadbury began selling chocolates in heart-shaped boxes in 1861.

How Chocolate and Valentine's Day Mated for Life

Tracing the lovers, the leaders and the ladies responsible for the pairing of chocolate to Valentine's Day

Nothing Says 'I Love You' Like a Bit of Pocket Change

Victorians seduced their sweeties with "love tokens"

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The Sultry Dance of the Bowerbird

A brightly-colored male bowerbird mesmerizes a young female with his bizarre dance

The statistics-crunching Facebook Data Science team has mined the site's vast clearinghouse of status updates for nuggets of insights on love.

What Can Facebook Tell Us About Love?

With data-mining being all the rage these days, our online activity may reveal some intriguing insights about romance in the login era

Artist's rendition of a bedroom at the Poseidon Mystery Island underwater resort

You Can Now Go on Vacation Under the Sea

Your next romantic getaway could be in a submarine or underwater hotels

From the Editor

Introducing our February 2014 issue

What Can Rodents Tell Us About Why Humans Love?

A relative of the mouse may hold the key to understanding why human beings are one of the few mammals that seek lifelong mates

Mates for Life

A Valentine for Sci-Art Lovers

A clever print by designer Jacqueline Schmidt pays homage to 12 different species with one thing in common—they mate for life

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The Origins of Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve

Valentine's Day can be an occasion for quirky expressions of love

Scientists are still wrestling with how love works.

10 Fresh Looks at Love

Don't understand love? Not to worry. Scientists continue to study away to try to make sense of it for the rest of us

Two waved albatrosses, the only tropical albatross species, courting one another on the Galapagos Islands.

Is It Love? Why Some Ocean Animals (Sort Of) Mate For Life

A look at the mating systems of some monogamous ocean animals show that finding life partners helps species protect themselves and their young

On Black Day, single Koreans drown their sorrows in a bowl of jjajang myeon noodles.

Korea’s Black Day: When Sad, Single People Get Together And Eat Black Food

Each year on April 14, singles in South Korea drown their sorrows in a bowl of black noodles

Valentine’s Day–it’s not just for humans.

Critter Cupids: Animals in Love

Ever wonder how a giant panda says I love you? Or how a sea lion bonds with a best friend?

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Harry Truman’s Adorable Love “List” to His Wife, Bess

As a celebration of 38 years of marriage, the former president shared his memories, both fond and bittersweet, from each anniversary

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How Big Data Has Changed Dating

What it means to be single and looking for love in the time of algorithms

Faithful Monkeys Make More Babies

When owl monkeys break up the mate that takes up with "the other partner" produces fewer offspring than faithful monkeys

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Why Do Flowers Smell Good?

Humans have loved flowers for millennia, for both their looks and their scents

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