A new artificial tongue uses milk to determine heat levels in spicy food - without anyone having to scorch their taste buds. Chinese researchers developed the device to quickly detect spiciness as the ...

The appearance of a hot sauce or pepper doesn't reveal whether it's mild or likely to scorch someone's taste buds, but researchers have now created an artificial tongue to quickly detect spiciness.

Don’t take a licking from spicy food. A team of researchers in China claims to have created an artificial “tongue” that can quickly detect spice levels in their food — and they used a well-known ...

This transparent square acts like an artificial tongue, reacting to capsaicin and similar pungent compounds in proportion to a food’s spiciness. The appearance of a hot sauce or pepper doesn’t reveal ...