Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Neuroscience tells us that love is caused by ...

For millennia, philosophers, prophets, and poets have debated and theorized about love: what it is, how to describe it, how to cultivate it. Scientists, not so much. Indeed, only in recent decades ...

We think about love on Valentine’s Day more than other days, don’t we? Maybe not? Perhaps we think about cards with red hearts, and chocolates, and flowers to buy for our romantic partner. But is it ...

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love,” wrote the Czech writer Franz Kafka to his lover, Milena, in 1920. In other dispatches, he grows more desperate: “I miss ...

For centuries, romantics have turned to musicians, artists, writers and philosophers in their quest to define one of humankind’s most complex, and arguably critical, emotions. Neuroscientist Zoe ...

Love can take countless forms — romantic, platonic, everlasting, fleeting and even heartbreaking. Some believe love is a feeling, others insist it’s a choice and some don’t believe in it at all. I’m ...

A smitten couple lean in for a kiss in a hotel lobby as I beeline towards a softly lit conference room buzzing with first-date energy. I am here to attend the Love, Actually and in Theory meeting, ...