Oral herpes (HSV-1) can be spread through kissing. In rare instances, syphilis can be spread through kissing if there is a sore in the mouth. In general, kissing is a low-risk activity for spreading ...

This article contains spoilers about Avatar: Fire and Ash. Sigourney Weaver knows that the real-life age gap between her and her Avatar: Fire and Ash love interest may have some audiences worried, ...

George Clooney is no longer interested in romance on the big screen. During a recent interview with the Daily Mail, Clooney said that after having a discussion with his wife, Amal Clooney, about his ...

Kissing might feel like a cultural invention, but new research suggests it reaches far deeper into our evolutionary past. Researchers from the University of Oxford analyzed primate behavior, ancient ...

A lawsuit has been filed against Sierra Canyon School alleging an 8-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by older students as part of an unsupervised "Kissing Club" operating in school bathrooms. The ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon. It is ...

Scientists have traced kissing back to early primates, suggesting it began long before humans evolved. Their analysis points to great apes and even Neanderthals sharing forms of kissing millions of ...

It seems that kissing is an age-old practice, spanning back 21 million years. This is the finding of University of Oxford and Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) researchers who have unearthed ...

For humans, kissing holds major cultural cachet, accompanying confessions of romantic love, religious rituals of reverence and even betrayals, à la The Godfather Part II’s “kiss of death.” New ...

The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large ...

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 ...