Thirdhand smoke - residue left by exhaled smoke on surfaces - negatively affects cells in humans.

New study busts myths about gossip: Women don’t engage in “tear-down” gossip any more than men, lower income people don’t gossip more than wealthy people, younger people are more likely to gossip negatively than their older counterparts, and people gossip 52 minutes a day on average (n=467).

The urge to squeeze or even bite a cute puppy, or being compelled to pinch a baby’s cheeks without a desire to harm it, is called “cute aggression”, and a new electrophysiology (ERP) study is the first to confirm a neural basis for this phenomenon.