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Scientists have identified the tongue as a unique biometric marker with diagnostic potential. This discovery could transform ...

It's the stuff of nightmares, or science fiction: a parasite that wants to get inside an animal's mouth, where it attacks — and replaces — the tongue. That's the incredibly specific, terribly icky job ...

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Anyone who has watched the classic holiday film "A Christmas Story" can probably recall the scene where one of the characters got his tongue stuck on a frozen, metal pole after he was dared to lick it ...

While the electronic tongue bears little physical resemblance to its namesake, the strand-like sensory probes of the 'e-tongue' still outperformed human senses when detecting contaminated wine in a ...

Your mouth is home to billions of bacteria—some prefer to live on the inside of the cheeks, while others prefer the teeth, some the gums, or the surface of the tongue. Writing this week in the journal ...

Get a closer look at the blood-sucking parasite that eats, and then replaces, a fish's tongue without it knowing. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots.

A mysterious condition that gives the tongue a mottled appearance that can sometimes resemble a map of the continents has long baffled scientists, but new research may offer some clues to its causes.

Few can deny that one of life's greatest gustatory pleasures is that first silky smooth release of fat, sugar and cocoa that comes after biting into a favorite piece of chocolate. While many of us ...