A kiss may be on your list as one of the best things in life. But have you ever thought about how kissing evolved in the first place into such a meaningful activity for humans? After all, even though ...

So here's something fun I discovered: making out actually burns calories! Who knew, right? I'll be honest – when my friend first told me this, I laughed. But then I started digging into the research, ...

A kiss has served as affection, greeting, ritual, agreement and legal offense, with its meaning changing dramatically across cultures and historical periods. Romantic mouth-to-mouth kissing is not ...

A team at the University of Warwick is suggesting that human kissing evolved from grooming behaviors observed in ancestral great apes. In a study, "The Evolutionary Origin of Human Kissing," published ...

We know kissing as a social pleasantry, the appropriate ending for a date, and a means of connecting with our main squeeze. The collision of lips and tongues that we often take for granted has a lot ...

Kissing is one of our favourite disgusting activities. Looking at it objectively, sharing saliva with someone else is a pretty gross thing to do. In fact, we transfer approximately 80 million bacteria ...

We all know that kissing is pretty great (particularly when you’re kissing someone you’re really stoked to be kissing. And sure, a good make-out sesh feels amazing and is the ultimate form of foreplay ...

If I asked you to imagine your dream snog, chances are it wouldn't be with a Neanderthal; burly and hirsute as they may be. However, my team's new research suggests that these squat beefcakes might ...

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The fastest way to ruin a perfectly good date or, alternatively, take it from good to ahhhmazing, is with a kiss. We've talked about the things that ruin a kiss, but now let's have a happy-sigh-filled ...