The simple act of chewing food thoroughly before swallowing represents one of the oldest nutritional recommendations across diverse cultural traditions. Modern research now suggests this ancestral ...

Researcher Nikolai Konow has been studying the mechanics of chewing. Photo via Brown University. Fish do it. Lizards do it. Cows do it. Get your heads out of the gutter, readers. We’re talking about ...

Chewing gum fiends might want to think twice before popping in another piece of gum. A pilot study found that chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva. Specifically, gum can release hundreds to ...

SAN DIEGO, March 25, 2025 — Plastic is everywhere. And many products we use in everyday life, such as cutting boards, clothes and cleaning sponges, can expose people to tiny, micrometer-wide plastic ...

Researchers have found yet another potential contributor to the increasing amount of microplastics found in our bodies: gum. According to a pilot study presented during the American Chemical Society’s ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract By digitizing the enamel configuration and calculating the overall directional tendencies of the enamel edges in complex equid dental patterns ...