In the new study, researchers used powerful technology to analyse thousands of individual cells at once, considering which ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: We have noses to smell, eyes to see, and ears to hear, right? Well, actually, your ears are responsible for much more than just hearing.

The little muscles that enable people to wiggle their ears unconsciously flex when we're trying to pick one sound out of a din of noise, a new study finds. Think about how cats, dogs and certain ...

“If we can engineer an ear, that would be a better approach.” Spector’s team used 3D printing to create an anatomically accurate template of a human ear from polylactic acid bioink, a biocompatible ...

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You'll notice that's not including random spikes of noise you hear throughout the day. The human ear can tolerate noise up to 85 decibels without damage. Anything louder poses a risk of permanent ...

We can hear sounds because our ears turn sound vibrations from the air, into signals that are sent to our brain. We can’t hear all levels of sounds. Sound waves with very high frequencies are ...

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, ...

According to research published in the journal Nature by scientists from the University of Southern California, the genes that provide the instructions for human ears once directed the formation ...