Don’t take a licking from spicy food. A team of researchers in China claims to have created an artificial “tongue” that can quickly detect spice levels in their food — and they used a well-known ...

A common cause of tongue discomfort is oral allergy syndrome (OAS), or pollen fruit syndrome. About 50 to 75 percent of adults are allergic to pollen, according to the American Academy of Allergy, ...

Even in the cleanest, safest piercing studios, piercers have seen things that would make anyone’s stomach turn. Think severely infected jewelry, piercings filled with pus, piercings lost in someone’s ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes ...

A MOTHER has revealed that she let her 12-year-old daughter get her tongue pierced. Whitney Ainscough, 31, a mum from Rotherham in South Yorkshire, claimed that people will “judge” her for it, but she ...

Like spicy food, sour candy is famous for its “hurts so good” flavor. Many sour candy lovers will tell you that the more painful, the better when it comes to their preferred treats. But the ...

Princess Anne had a hilariously direct response when her daughter, Zara Tindall, got a tongue piercing as a teen. The Princess Royal reportedly had one very simple question. Ahead, what Anne asked her ...

The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth. It's covered with moist, pink tissue called mucosa. Tiny bumps called papillae give the tongue its rough texture. Thousands of taste buds cover the ...

Luckily for us, the parasite, Cymothoa exigua, which is a type of crustacean called an isopod, is not interested in human flesh. It lives in the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Mexico and Central ...