Talk about a meet cute: She was deaf. He was her speech therapist … And then he went on to invent the telephone (and the tetrahedral kite, a good place to plant one on your wife).
For the first time, research has begun to illuminate where love lies in the brain and the particulars of its chemical components. Love or lust—which one is strong enough to send us to a tattoo parlor?
"Despite all this change, the massive Colorado River Delta is still one of the most wild and beautiful places betwixt source and sea." One man’s mission to save the Colorado is a labor of true love.
A pair of froghoppers caught in the act more than 165 million years ago proves that some things never change.
Buss. Neck. Nuzzle. Snog. Pet. There are as many words for kissing as there are types of kisses. Here are a few of our favorite smoochy shots from the National Geographic archives.
"There we were, so different, a California surfer kid and an Ecuadorian girl from a conservative family. Shortly after we met we were knocking over trays and bottles as we made out under the dim red lights of the darkroom, hiding from professors and photo students."
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even pollinating plants do it.
Writer Joyce Maynard took a journey through her father’s paintings and into his past.
What happens when you spend hundreds of hours observing lions in the Serengeti? You see nature taking its course: "We observed six weeks of almost nonstop mating."
How do you define "love"? According to your pictures on our Your Shot community, in 12,269 (and counting) different ways.
The elaborate courtship dance of the Wahnes’s parotia, a New Zealand bird of paradise, is a real draw for the ladies.
