Gum chewing independently arose across different cultures and regions at different times, says Jennifer Mathews, an anthropologist at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. In Mexico, for instance, ...

But the late 1990s ended with a bubblegum pop craze that the world had never seen ... In 1997, a 15-year-old Britney Spears signed with Jive Records. That one signature would go on to change ...

Big Brother's Bubble has entered the world record books after successfully completing an eating challenge he failed while in the house. Repeating the attempt today in the presence of an official ...

Like Violet Beaureguard, the avid gum chewer in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory," Curt Mueller hopes to find out just how much shelf life a piece of gum really has. A piece of Bazooka bubble ...

Not to burst your bubble, but your gum might be packed with plastic. A new study found that chewing a single piece releases hundreds — if not thousands — of microplastics into your saliva ...

PARIS - Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces ... small shards of plastic called microplastics throughout the world, from the tops of mountains to the bottom of the ocean ...