For Scientists, Love Is Sometimes the Secret Ingredient to Breakthroughs

Marie and Pierre Curie

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Hi, it's Cynthia in New York. Valentine’s Day has us thinking about... chemistry. But before we get to that…

It turns out that romance is pretty good fuel for scientific breakthroughs: A lot of world-changing discoveries have been made by research partners who also happened to be couples.