Evolution has left humans with many vestigial traits—remnants of once-useful biological features that serve little or no modern purpose. One such example is the muscles around our ears, which in many ...

The inner ear is responsible for our sense of balance and the ability to stabilize our gaze, even when we are moving around. However, a new study in Nature Communications discovered this is not the ...

The name of the ability to recognize and respond to such changes is hyperacusis. It is an over-sensitivity to sound that frequently occurs due to damage to the cochlea (cochlear origin) or the ...

Many mammals physically pivot their ears to hone in on a particular sound, and now it seems that a similar action takes place ...

Evolution has largely deprived us of our ability to swivel our ears, but those vestigial muscles still activate when we listen intently, according to new research. reading time 3 minutes Tens of ...

Research team awarded five-year, $3.2 million grant from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders AHL is among the most common health conditions affecting older adults, ...

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