Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. For many of us, our mental picture of romantic love is a couple. After all, a firmly ...

Zendaya didn’t have to look too far to know Tom Holland was right for her. A year after the Spider-Man costars confirmed their engagement, the Euphoria actress shared what she considers a relationship ...

Here's a common scenario in my office. Two people sit on opposite ends of the couch, bodies angled away from each other, with tension in the air palpable. One stares at the floor while the other ...

Couples ask each other countless questions over the course of a day, a year, an entire relationship. Many are trivial: Chinese or Thai for dinner? Need anything from the store? Few probe how each ...

Two years ago, Cosmopolitan declared that AI was coming for your dating life. Back then, AI’s impending influence on the state of modern love still felt largely theoretical, a prediction that seemed ...

LET IT BE KNOWN that Relationship Goals (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) is less of a romantic comedy than it is an act of synergistic corporate-religious shamelessness. Ostensibly, it’s a ...

Jessica A. Stern does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Whether you’re looking to argue better or have a little more fun with your partner, we’ve got you covered. By Jancee Dunn and Catherine Pearson Most couples — even the unicorns among us who claim they ...

2025 has been a year of much chaos: a political storm under the Trump administration, major economic and geopolitical instability, and the introduction of artificial intelligence into all aspects of ...

Treena Orchard has received funding from CIHR, SSHRC, and Western Ontario but no research monies were used in the creation of this article. Western University provides funding as a member of The ...

But why is that? What is it about our relationships that make them so central to our lives? According to neuroscientist Ben Rein’s new book, Why Brains Need Friends, it comes down to our brains. As he ...

A staggering third of Americans have had a romantic relationship with an artificial intelligence system, according to a new study from Vantage Point Counseling Services. Approximately 28 percent of ...