It takes years for kids to figure out how to spit — but it's an important skill. (Photo: Getty; illustrated by Nathalie Cruz) There will no doubt come a time when your child spits more than you'd like ...

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — When Tim Peters started banging on a neighbor’s door and shouting about religion just before sunrise with a beer bottle in his hand, someone called the county sheriff. Neither the ...

Travelling in an auto rickshaw, a fellow passenger sitting next to driver spits. Few drops come to Prakash sitting right behind. When Prakash complains, passenger who spit retorts, ‘Wind is blowing ...

Hock a loogie and you’ll see it — that slimy, bubbly, lovely liquid known as spit. A complex fluid known in more refined circles as saliva, the initial benefits of spit may seem obvious. Spit ...

In the name of spit science, Douglas Granger and his colleagues have collected saliva samples from a restless polar bear, a college marching band and Navy medics dodging bullets in simulated combat.