So even though the “fight-or-flight” system is involved, blushing isn’t about preparing for danger. Instead, scientists think ...

It can be a first date, job interview or public speaking. Your heart starts pounding and palms get sweaty. But what gives you away is going red in the face: Look, you're a nervous wreck! This is very ...

Khaberni - Blushing is a sign of feeling embarrassed or shy, where suddenly a warm flush appears that sneaks up to the neck ...

All it takes is a ‘good morning’ at the supermarket checkout and Susan Hughes feels a familiar burning sensation in her cheeks. The same happens when she opens the door to a delivery person at home, ...

Blushing is the biggest gap in evolutionary theory, suggests a leading scientist, who admits that the riddle why people go red in the face when they are embarrassed is still difficult to explain.

Literature is full of blushing characters: Everyone from Elizabeth Bennet to Hermione Granger—heck, even the ax-wielding Annie Wilkes from Misery—occasionally blushes, and as a result, the reader ...

Travel vlogger Kaylen — known on social media as @kaylendoesstuff — documented her “excruciatingly painful” experience getting a lip blushing treatment Kaylen/TikTok A travel vlogger has gone viral ...

I can remember blushing frequently when I was in my teens - but going to medical school at 18 soon cured me of the problem. Not least because I was one of the few women there and I had to get used to ...

If you’re a frequent flusher, you know that it’s not a girlish, rosy glow, but more of a splotchy magenta rash that can spread like tie-dye from the chest up. Invariably it seems to occur at the most ...

It's a Saturday afternoon and I'm standing in line at a supermarket holding a lemon, and lemon-infused tonic. I also happen to be wearing a lemon print dress. Suddenly a voice from behind me says: "I ...

Whether happy or sad, when hens get flustered they see red — and so do their farmers. Literally. In a recent study into animal emotional intelligence, researchers found that not only do chickens ...