Have you ever wondered why human ears are built the way they are, and how they came to be? Science has yet to fully uncover ...

Discovered in Israel, the skull of a 3-year-old child shows characteristics of both humans and Neanderthals. This finding ...

Scientists have created a more efficient and controlled way to produce lab-grown inner ear hair cells than current methods ...

That’s the spot, Mom! We have to imagine that’s exactly what one Bernese Mountain Dog was thinking as his mama scratched behind his ear. The dog was loving it. So much so that people online ...

You might take your ears for granted, but the human ear is quite an extraordinary feat of evolution and design.

Inner ear of extinct ape species is overlooked aspect of human bipedal evolution, study finds Described by scientists as a "bony labyrinth," the inner ear provides many clues as to the origin of ...

But how can audio possess eight dimensions? How can our ears hear something in eight dimensions? And why do 8D videos always tell us to put our headphones on? In short, what the heck is 8D audio ...

Human ears are tuned to sounds that are important in our lives. Sounds between 500 and 4,000 Hz are important because they are the frequencies most critical for hearing and decoding speech.

Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins ...

How did human ears evolve? Writing in Nature, Thiruppathy et al. 1 report that many of the same genetic elements (genes and enhancers) are activated during the formation of human external ear ...

A common plant-based supplement was able to restore hearing in mice. Human ears could be next Scientists believe that hearing loss may be linked to a decrease in cholesterol in the inner ear's ...

An international team of surgeons and scientists from, among others, Uppsala University has confirmed secure surgical access to the central core of the human cochlea.