--- title: Five Best: Science Might Hold the Secret to Love That Lasts description: Science might hold the secret to love that lasts, making the case for the “self-driven child” and more. canonical: https://time.com/5162543/science-might-hold-the-secret-to-love-that-lasts/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-16T17:00:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:06.004Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Science Might Hold the Secret to Love That Lasts og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5162543/science-might-hold-the-secret-to-love-that-lasts/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Science Might Hold the Secret to Love That Lasts twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Science Might Hold the Secret to Love That Lasts by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 16, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 16, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Science might hold the secret to love that lasts.**](https://news.upenn.edu/news/five-science-based-tips-to-build-lasting-love) By Michele W. Berger at the _University of Pennsylvania_ **2\.** [**Making the case for the “self-driven child.”**](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-case-for-the-ldquo-self-driven-child-rdquo/) By Gareth Cook in _Scientific American_ **3\.** [**Could Amazon’s new headquarters turn a red state blue?**](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/amazon-headquarters-politics/553394/) By Ronald Brownstein in the _Atlantic_ **4\.** [**This Russian rapid response Twitter bot army is already skewing the conversation about gun violence.**](https://www.wired.com/story/pro-gun-russian-bots-flood-twitter-after-parkland-shooting/) By Erin Griffith in _Wired_ **5\.** [**Everyday chemicals — think paints, pesticides and perfumes — rival car exhaust as urban air pollution.**](https://cires.colorado.edu/news/consumer-industrial-products-now-dominant-urban-air-pollution-source) By CIRES at the _University of Colorado Boulder_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5162543/science-might-hold-the-secret-to-love-that-lasts/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5162543/science-might-hold-the-secret-to-love-that-lasts/"},"headline":"Science Might Hold the Secret to Love That Lasts","datePublished":"2018-02-16T17:00:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:06.004Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5162543/science-might-hold-the-secret-to-love-that-lasts/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Children","Amazon","Innovation","Love","chemicals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5162543/science-might-hold-the-secret-to-love-that-lasts/","name":"Science Might Hold the Secret to Love That Lasts"}}]}] ```