News tagged with tongue


Device connected to tongue designed to help blind perceive images

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

An experimental device that uses the tongue instead of the eyes to "see" could be on the market next year, and a blind Fresno, Calif., teen hopes to be among the first to take one home.





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Enhanced sweet taste: This is your tongue on pot

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New findings from the Monell Center and Kyushu University in Japan report that endocannabinoids act directly on taste receptors on the tongue to enhance sweet taste.


Sucking Up To Survive

Sucking Up To Survive

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Shrink a human being down to the size of an insect, and you would no longer be able to sip lemonade from a straw. The forces that hold liquid together would simply be too great to overcome at that tiny scale.


On the tip of your tongue: Researchers reveal our motor system activates when we hear speech

On the tip of your tongue: Researchers reveal our motor system activates when we hear speech

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London have discovered our motor system activates automatically when we hear speech. These findings could, in the future, play a central role ...


Experts are studying the first Mayan hieroglyphic script dealing with the life of a high priest

Mayan glyphs detail priest's life, blood sacrifices

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created 22 hours ago | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 2

Experts are studying the first Mayan hieroglyphic script dealing with the life of a high priest, his blood sacrifices and acts of penance, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said.


Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service

Google adds translation to main search engine

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service.


Australian fossil unlocks secrets to the origin of whales

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Museum Victoria palaeobiologist Dr Erich Fitzgerald has made new groundbreaking discoveries into the origin of baleen whales, based on a 25 million year old fossil found near Torquay in Victoria.


A NASA satellite image of iceberg B17B (C), some 19 kilometres (12 miles) long, floating off West Australia

Giant iceberg spotted south of Australia

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (16) | comments 23

A monster iceberg nearly twice the size of Hong Kong island has been spotted drifting towards Australia in what scientists Wednesday called a once-in-a-century event.


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Rare New Year's Eve 'blue moon' to ring in 2010

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 14 hours ago | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(AP) -- Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year's Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. ...


Got smell? Research shows that accurate taste perception relies on a functioning olfactory system

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As anyone suffering through a head cold knows, food tastes wrong when the nose is clogged, an experience that leads many to conclude that the sense of taste operates normally only when the olfactory system is also in good ...


You may be ready for online ritual suicide with the aid of a new website  that helps you kill your virtual identity

'Anti-social network' aims to be Facebook killer app

Technology / Internet

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook makes you despair? Social networking makes you want to end it all? You may be ready for online ritual suicide with the aid of a new website that helps you kill your virtual identity.



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