If some speakers in your sound system were broken, you might try to compensate by cranking up the volume on the ones that still work. It turns out that the brain does the same thing when damaged hair ...

One of the most common reasons for tinnitus is exposure to loud sounds. If you’ve ever left a concert or a noisy event and noticed a ringing in your ears afterward, that’s temporary tinnitus. But ...

Ear infections, sometimes called ear diseases, are one of the most common health issues in pets, particularly dogs and cats.

Hearing begins with the stretching of elastic molecular 'springs' that open ion channels in the sensory hair cells of the ear. For decades, researchers have known that these gating springs must exist, ...

Filthy buds look bad, impact sound quality and even risk infection. WIRED asked the experts how to correctly banish that ear gunk.