Quick Take A cat ear has 32 muscles, which they can use to rotate each ear up to 180 degrees independently. Cats rotate their ...

For months, Kaur struggled to hear her students clearly. What began as mild difficulty soon turned into a daily challenge. In ...

Cochlear implant surgery helps people with severe hearing loss by placing an electronic device inside the inner ear. To reach the inner ear, surgeons must first remove part of a bone behind the ear, ...

Proteins long known to be essential for hearing have been hiding a talent: they also act as gatekeepers that shuffle fatty molecules across cell membranes. When this newly discovered function goes ...

We invite you to imagine the tune of Happy Birthday right now! When you imagine this familiar melody, your ears aren’t involved, but some parts of the brain associated with the auditory system do ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered how pigeons and other birds navigate across vast distances without getting lost. One promising answer may lie deep inside their inner ears. It’s been ...

This is an important study describing the morphological changes during boundary formation between sensory and non-sensory tissues of the inner ear. The authors provided solid evidence that a ...

Fluttering in the ear can be caused by earwax buildup, high blood pressure, tinnitus, or eustachian tube dysfunction. Treatments for ear fluttering may include cleaning out earwax or managing blood ...

Ear crystals, or canaliths, help with balance and can cause vertigo when they move out of place. Exercises like the Epley and Semont maneuvers can help get the ear crystals back in place to stop ...

Fossilized fish ear stones – known as otoliths – can reveal far more than previously thought. In a recent study, a team of palaeontologists from the University of Vienna demonstrated that a refined ...