The decaf dance-pop on Harry Styles’ fourth album is just unremarkable. Even songs about the emptiness of pop stardom succumb to tasteful restraint. Kiss All the Time was inspired by LCD Soundsystem, ...

Well, today is Valentine's Day, which means love and connection are on people's minds, and I recently met someone who studies one form of affection, kissing. Matilda Brindle is an evolutionary ...

ARC Future Fellow and Professor in History and Archaeology, Macquarie University You’ve booked the restaurant, chosen the outfit, and selected a romantic spot for the perfect nightcap. But have you ...

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Gene Simmons' son Nick and Paul Stanley's son Evan have written an album together Nicole Briese is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously ...

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Matilda Brindle has previously received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council and the Leakey Foundation If I asked you to imagine your dream snog, chances are it wouldn’t be with a ...

The first kiss in history probably took place over 16.9 million years ago — long before humans even existed, a new study suggests. Despite its popularity in many cultures among lovers, family members ...

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 ...

Early humans like Neanderthals probably kissed, and our ape ancestors could have done so as far back as 21 million years ago. There is wide debate over when humans began kissing romantically. Ancient ...

KISS honored Ace Frehley in the band’s first performance since his death. The rock group performed its three-day KISS Kruise: Landlocked event in Las Vegas over the weekend and paid tribute to the ...