Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

If you’re human, you’ve probably hollered a curse word or two (or three) when barking your shin on a table edge or hitting your thumb with a hammer. Perhaps you’ve noticed that this seems to lessen ...

People often stop physical effort not because their muscles fail, but because their minds do. New research suggests that swearing - long viewed as a social taboo - may help people push past that ...

A study has found that swearing can momentarily increase strength and improve physical performance when a sudden burst of power is needed. The research was conducted by Dr. Richard Stephens’ team at ...