Loud noise travelled everywhere with Daryl Holmes. When he drove by, you could hear his car radio blaring. At dinner, he ...

It turns out the human ear got off to a fishy start. Literally. A fascinating new study reveals that the mammalian outer ear ...

Andre Hoelz, the Mary and Charles Ferkel Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, learned ...

Have you ever wondered why human ears are built the way they are, and how they came to be? Science has yet to fully uncover ...

Scientists studying ability of mice to regenerate ear damage say therapies based on retinoic acid might work across various tissue types.

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have shown how a minimal change in a single ion channel increases the sensitivity of sensory cells in the inner ear. Even soft sounds ...

In the inner ear, the sensory receptor cells (hair cells) signal reception of sound. They do so by converting mechanical input, due to sound waves moving the hair bundles on these cells, into ...