Perhaps the beauty of love is that one doesn’t need a unified scientific theory in order to feel it. A skeptic might scoff that what we call “love” is …
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Future of Love
Inverse dives deep into the cutting edge science of pleasure, sex, and human connection — whether in virtual reality, the real world, or even space.
Can love survive in the cosmic void? And if so, should it? Above fair Earth is where we lay our scene, where meetings between star-crossed lovers …
“I think in the long run, it’ll become a mutually accepted social lie that we tell ourselves.” In the 1897 play “Cyrano de Bergerac,” the titular …
First we get legs, then we find love. When I first tried to make friends in the metaverse, it didn’t go well. I put on my Oculus Quest VR headset and …
A mouse study completes a skin-spine-brain circuit of gentle touch. In 2018, when Leah Elias was a behavioral neuroscience graduate student at the …