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Blowing out birthday candles is an age-old tradition, but it's something that's more likely to make people cringe than cheer in the age of COVID-19. Thanks to the pandemic, we've all become a lot more ...

Blowing out birthday candles is fun, but your spit is the icing on the cake — quite literally. Scientists say that puckering up and making a wish sends varying amounts of bacteria flying onto your ...

What began as a sacred ritual has become one of the world’s most widespread party traditions. From moonlit offerings in Greece to protective spells in medieval Europe, birthday candles once carried ...

BYU Physics professor Brian Anderson works with students to align loudspeakers in a sound experiment that used time reversal ...