The Science of Falling in Love

With Valentine’s Day coming up in a few days, the question of love is on millions of minds across the country – but how exactly does love work, why does it happen? Unsurprisingly, the brain does most of the work.

The brain is an enormously complex organ, but there some things that we know for sure. Most data available suggest that romantic feelings start in the region of the lower brown known as the hypothalamus. Essentially, the hypothalamus is a super-dense cluster of nerves that controls bod