Face mask — check. Goggles — check. Gloves — check. Protective measures like these were all too familiar to health care workers caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. But despite all these ...

A video shows a lemur picking its nose, a behavior never before observed by scientists. The animal shoves one of her long agile fingers all the way up her nose to her throat. An accompanying study ...

What is picking your nose a sign of? Picking your nose isn't likely something you do in public. It's unsanitary and uncomfortable for others to witness; in some cases, you could even be hurting ...

A new study shows a sharp uptick in Covid cases among health care workers who pick their nose Getty Images/iStockphoto Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, health care workers have been at a ...

We teach kids not to do it. It's unsanitary. It's just plain gross to see. Let's be real, though. Most of us pick our noses - some 91% according to the only (small and old) study that seems to have ...

She’s had many a bad air day. Fed-up North Carolina flight attendant Taryn Milhouse is raising a stink about the most revolting traveler habits, which include nose-picking, blowing one’s nose — and ...

A study published in 2022 found a tenuous but plausible link between picking your nose and an increased risk of developing dementia. In cases where picking at your nose causes internal tissue damage, ...

Neuroinflammation may play a role in the development of Alzheimer's disease, a new study shows. How is neuroinflammation caused? The simplest way is by picking your nose. That's right: The new study ...

Those who admitted to nose picking were 3.8 times as likely to catch the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as those who claimed that they didn't. (Photo by Max ...

Headline after headline has been written about a 2024 study, published in the scientific journal Biomolecules, which suggests that “neuroinflammation may also play an — at least partial — role in ...