Tag: Tongue

  • Nation & World

    Wedding gift from her doctors — the ability to smile again

    A complicated brain tumor surgery left Rebecca Grasso with facial paralysis. But thanks to a series of nerve transfers at Harvard-affiliated Mass Eye and Ear, she was able to smile at her wedding.

    6 minutes
    Rebecca Grasso and Matthew St. Pierre.
  • Nation & World

    No cheeks, no problem

    Harvard biologist Alfred W. Crompton shows that dogs drink not with a messy scoop of the tongue, but in a way similar to that of cats — by using adhesion and inertia to pull water from the bowl into their mouths.

    4 minutes