Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Butterflies in the stomach. Weak in the knees. A broken heart. There are plenty of sayings that associate love with different body parts. But what does science have to say about it? Where does love (and different kinds of love, not just the mushy romantic stuff) reside in the body? And how do scientists work that out?

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