Think outside the chocolate box on Valentine’s Day

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Think outside the (chocolate) box on Valentine’s Day

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we have a special delivery of intriguing stories we hope you love at first sight. While candy hearts may not be good for you, expressing your feelings to your sweetie can improve your health. But just how affectionate are you? You can find out through a quiz developed by an ASU researcher. As anyone who has forgotten to give their loved one a card or gift on Valentine’s Day can attest, relationships can be stressful. Fortunately, ASU’s own scientific Cupid offers 11 research-backed tips to create — or restore — serenity.

If your true love is science, you’ll enjoy reading about a new augmented reality system that could revolutionize the way U.S. Air Force pilots train for combat, ASU expert answers to common COVID-19 vaccine questions, engineering innovations used to explore the desert’s ecosystem and tips on how to navigate social media fake news.

We hope you enjoy these great reads for Valentine’s Day!

Expressing love can improve your health

Did you know giving your sweetie a Valentine heart might boost the health of your own ticker?
Discover how hugs and kisses offer health benefits and take the quiz to see how affectionate you are. (This quiz, first published in 2013, is so loved by online readers that it’s still one of Knowledge Enterprise’s top-ranking pages.)

Learn more about protection from affection.

Love factually

While every relationship goes through its ups and downs, its twists and turns, ASU’s own scientific Cupid reveals 11 tips for reducing relationship stress.

Discover the 11 tips.

Flying high tech: A new way to train fighter pilots

An ASU Luminosity Lab student and U.S. Air Force airmen aspire to revolutionize fighter pilot training in the annual Spark Tank competition. Inside their toolkit: a 3D real-time game development platform and mixed reality headsets.

Learn about this tech.

A dose of facts: Answering your COVID-19 vaccine questions

A dose of facts: Answering your COVID-19 vaccine questions
As rapidly produced and authorized vaccines become available to the public, people are wondering: How safe are they? Do they work? What’s in them?

Hear ASU experts’ answers.

At ASU, ecology embraces engineering to uncover the mysteries of the desert

At ASU, ecology embraces engineering to uncover the mysteries of the desert

By matching elusive ecological questions with innovative engineering methods, ASU students and researchers are gaining a deeper understanding of desert ecosystems.

Read the story.