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 ...

The answer in recent years has been the eyes and ears, as investors have poured money into treatments for diseases causing blindness, hearing loss and other diseases affecting an aging population ...

Human Headphones offer three products in one patented design: over-the-ear quality, ear-bud convenience and a portable Bluetooth speaker. Human Headphones will start at $399 and are available via ...

More than a third of seniors suffer from at least moderate hearing loss, and while hearing aids have improved over the years, no drug currently exists on the market to recover their lost hearing.

What you may not know is that your ear is also home to the three smallest bones in your body: the ossicles, from a Latin word meaning small bone. Their individual names come from Latin, too.

The human inner ear—the cochlea—uses a combination of a liquid-filled channel and hairs that respond to frequencies ranging from 100 Hz to 10,000 Hz, a 100-fold range. Now imagine an RF circuit that ...

In the future, human replacement ears may use collagen taken from the patient, Thomas Cervantes, one of the researchers and a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, told the BBC.

They implanted the shape of a human ear in the back of a mouse as part of research to better understand how they could help grow body parts for humans. They published their results in 1997.

Drawing inspiration from the human hearing system, the team sought to create a fabric “ear” that was soft, durable, comfortable and capable of detecting sound.

Think about how cats, dogs and certain monkeys twitch their ears in response to new sounds. This instinctive movement isn't just for show; it helps funnel sound toward the animals' eardrums ...