SKOWHEGAN – The inimitable patriarch of our family, who always said he was “up to no good” and “number than a pounded thumb”, Robert “Bob” Whittemore Withee passed away peacefully on Dec. 10, 2025.

UW-Milwaukee Ph.D. student Lindsey Roddy is developing a new product to organize the web of medical lines, cords and tubes by the bedsides of hospital patients. Nurses often turn to makeshift ...

A four-year-old French mastiff and Bullmastiff mix from Oklahoma has set a new Guinness World Record for having a super long tongue. Ozzy claimed the title for the longest tongue on a living dog with ...

Milk protein put to use in spiciness-gauging "artificial tongue" By Ben Coxworth November 21, 2025 The device (clear rectangular slab of gel) uses casein protein from milk, which binds with the ...

My plan worked. A liquid injected into the veins of children—yes, children, unwilling, screaming, crying children—to prevent them from contracting communicable diseases. Hate me if you want to. I ...

Ghana’s government introduced the policy as a means of cultural empowerment after generations of English, inherited from colonial rule and white supremacy. The Ghanaian government has announced a new ...

For thousands of years traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners have checked patients’ tongues as part of a full examination, carefully scrutinizing their color, shape and coating in an ...

We all have tastebuds, and some of us even have more textured tongues than others, but you know an out-of-place tongue bump when you see one. It could be swollen, discolored, or even painful. Such ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

Purpose: To compare the 3D-printed oral stents (3D-OS) and personalised hand-made stents in dentistry (DentStent) for head and neck malignancies. Methods: Twelve patients with head and neck malignant ...

There are all sorts of numbers associated with modern vehicles, especially trucks or SUVs that are designed as workhorses for heavy duty tasks. Knowing your truck's towing capacity, however, could ...

Gum chewing has been shown to boost blood flow to the brain, enhancing alertness, focus and cognitive function. South Korean researchers discovered that another substance may be even more beneficial ...