Love is a drug

Researchers from the ANU, the University of Canberra and the University of South Australia have measured how a part of the brain puts our loved one on a pedestal in that first flush of romantic love.

Shot of love

This St Valentine’s Day our thoughts turn to love. The idea dominates our popular culture and is the subject of countless songs, movies, and works of literature and art, but what’s actually happening in our body when we fall in love?

The magic of love

Far from an invention of poets or reality TV producers, romantic love has been a part of human nature for many thousands of years for sound evolutionary reasons.