Nikon's Small World competition recognizes the best microscope photographs of the year. Microscopy is an art and a science, revealing the alien beauty of the hidden world all around us. The 2022 ...

A magnified look at a cat tongue reveals the serrated edges that Fluffy uses to clean herself, and rasp meat from bone. A composite image of a section of cat tongue plated on a microscope slide, ...

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The human tongue contains more than 2,000 taste buds, which can distinguish between the five main tastes: salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami. However, understanding the relationship between taste ...

It’s tough to watch taste buds in action—you can’t clamp a microscope onto a subject’s tongue. As a result, researchers typically study taste cells in a petri dish. But for bioengineer Myunghwan Choi ...

Gotcha! A frog's tongue can be five times faster than the blink of a human eye. F1online digitale Bildagentur GmbH / Alamy How does one get stuck studying frog tongues? Our study into the sticky, ...