Anatomy of the tongue. When one’s voice is muted, it helps to be introspective. It helps to wonder if it was silenced by society and the general construct of what is acceptable speech or if you ...

Tongue Rolling: A person with this ability can roll the side edges of the tongue upward and form a tube-like structure. This is considered to be the most common form of tongue-twisting.

The average tongue length for adults is 3.3 inches (8.5 cm) for men and 3.1 inches (7.9 cm) for women. Learn more about the tongue, including its function, what it's made of, the longest tongue ...

Rarely do questions make us speechless. “Is there any animal that naturally has no tongue?” Jeanette Thorpe asked Saturday’s Weird Animal Question of the Week via Facebook. (Check out Five ...

Scientists have mapped the 3-D structure of the human sweet taste receptor, the molecular machine that allows us to taste sweet things. This could lead to the discovery of new regulators of the ...

The sugar in a lollipop activates a receptor in the tongue. Its 3D structure has now been revealed. Credit: Iparraguirre Recio/Getty. Sugar has long seduced the human palate — and wreaked havoc ...

Multi-electrode cortical recordings during the production of different consonant-vowel syllables reveal distinct speech-articulator representations that are arranged somatotopically, with temporal ...