Every day, people swallow opinions in meetings, soften criticism with friends, or stay quiet about politics at family dinners ...

Mewing refers to maintaining a specific oral posture where the entire tongue rests flat against the roof of the mouth, the ...

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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 ...

A new wireless device has allowed paralyzed people to drive a wheelchair simply by moving their tongues. In a clinical trial, people with paralysis of all four limbs, a condition known as tetraplegia, ...

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WASHINGTON — An experimental device is letting paralyzed people drive wheelchairs simply by flicking their tongue in the right direction. Key to this wireless system: Users get their tongue pierced ...

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 ...

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.

Stop what you are doing and try saying this 10 times fast: “pad kid poured curd pulled cod.” Feeling tongue tied? You should. You just tried what might be one of the trickiest tongue twisters ever ...

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 ...