Even water tastes sweeter when you're in love, new research finds. But not every emotion heightens the senses. Jealousy fails to bring out bitter or sour tastes, despite metaphors that suggest it ...

Cecilia Payne was in her early 20s when she figured out what the stars are made of. Both she and her groundbreaking findings were ahead of their time.

What do we know about what goes on in our bodies, and especially in our brains, when we're in love? A new French essay, “Cerveau, sexe et amour” (Brain, Sex and Love), looks into this question.

It turns out that there is a lot of science about why people fall in love that is at once super strange and actually fairly credible.

What really happened when one brave woman tested out the scientific formula for falling in love. You will never think about romance in the same way again.