Humans
Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it
Research into dating has until now almost exclusively focused on younger people, but we’re finally beginning to investigate how romance changes in later life
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Mind
What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick
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Mind
The emotion you never knew you had, and how to feel more of it
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Humans
Kissing may have evolved in an ape ancestor 21 million years ago
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Mind
Women prefer to be prettier than a partner, but men want to be funnier
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What can psychoanalysis teach us about love and heartbreak?
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Technology
Why falling in love with an AI isn’t laughable, it’s inevitable
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Mind
Bel Powley is fabulous in this wonderful dystopian satire
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Mind
Why taking our grief out into nature can help us heal
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Mind
There aren’t five love languages, despite claims on TikTok
The science of relationships doesn't support the idea that there are five love languages. Instead, it's better to think about love as akin to keeping a nutritionally balanced diet, say psychologists Emily Impett, Haeyoung Gideon Park and Amy Muise
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Humans
Couples are most in love in Hungary, according to science
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Humans
I am planning my wife’s woodland burial, but green funerals are costly
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Love drugs are coming and they bring big ethical problems with them
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Humans
Heart rates synchronise if two people get on well during first date
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