Unpack the history of the New Year’s Eve kiss tradition—and learn from a relationship expert about how to make your night ...

The study defined kissing, in part, as “oral-oral contact with some movement of the lips/mouthparts and no food transfer” Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of journalism experience, ...

Kissing feels instinctive and intimate, yet scientists now argue it is a surprisingly recent and uneven addition to human behavior. Instead of a single romantic origin story, the evidence points to a ...

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 ...