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 ...

Making out. Puckering up. Smooching. Snogging. Lip-locking. Tongue-wrestling. Rounding first base. Sucking-face. Whatever you call it, one of our favorite facts about kissing is that it can contribute ...

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, ...

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You may think you know why humans enjoy smooching with one another, but a new study published this month has revealed the real history behind why we lock lips. Research conducted by Adriano R. Lameira ...

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 ...

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 ...

What's in a kiss? A new study suggests kissing helps us size up potential partners and, once in a relationship, may be a way of getting a partner to stick around. What's in a kiss? A study by Oxford ...

It wasn’t believed to be, but recent studies have shown that it is actually possible to contract oral gonorrhea from kissing. There’s accumulating evidence that kissing might be a common mode of ...