The vertebrate ear is a remarkable structure. Tightly encapsulated within the densest bone of the skeleton, it comprises the smallest elements of the vertebrate skeleton (auditory ossicles) and gives ...

For the first time archaeologists have used the small bones found in the ear to look at the health of women and children from 160 years ago. Archaeologists from the University of Bradford have ...

Otosclerosis is one of many hearing disorders found only in humans, affecting the otic capsule. It occurs when the joints between the ossicles in the middle ear become hardened with age. The formation ...

Understanding why certain small sounds or noises irritate and annoy us in our everyday life! You are sitting in your class, ...

Researchers have developed a new device that can be used to visualize how sound-induced vibrations travel through the ear. Researchers have developed a new device that can be used to visualize how ...

When saltwater fish long ago evolved to live in fresh water, many of them also evolved a more sophisticated hearing system, including middle ear bones similar to those in humans. Two-thirds of all ...

We’ve covered some pretty smart hearing aids before at Digital Trends, but the work being done by researchers at Baltimore’s University of Maryland School of Medicine is something else entirely.

After syphilis had destroyed the hearing of the late great Composer Ludwig van Beethoven, that melancholy genius discovered that by clenching a stick in his teeth, holding it against the keyboard of ...