Humans Lost the Ability to Wiggle Their Ears 25 Million Years Ago, but Your Ear Muscles Still Try
We still try to prick up our ears, scientists discover.
Tag: hearing
Can we reverse hearing loss? Yes we can, here is how it works
We are closer than ever to reversing hearing loss in humans, here is all the proof you need.
Neanderthals likely spoke and understood language like humans
Neanderthals had much better oral communication abilities than their ancestors, resembling those of humans.
How a deaf Beethoven discovered bone conduction by attaching a rod to his piano and clenching it in his teeth
Beethoven wrote dozens of symphonies and songs while deaf. But he had some help from a nifty trick.
Big-eyed spiders that cast nets like gladiators can hear prey despite lacking ears
These freaky looking spiders can sense incoming prey from more than two meters away.
Leaf blowers are not only annoying but also bad for you (and the environment)
It comes down to the inefficient engines they use.
We finally found the protein that turns sound and balance into electrical signals
The paper puts a long-standing debate to rest.
Does living near wind turbines really affect your health?
The answer is certainly debated.
Whale skulls act like resonance chambers to help them hear underwater
First whole-body CT scan of a minke whale yields insights on whale communication
A rooster’s crow is as loud as a jet taking off 15 meters away. Here’s why it doesn’t go deaf
Roosters have evolved soft tissue over the inner ear that protects them from their own clamor.
Owls’ ears are always in tip-top shape because they’re self-repairing
They can hear you being salty because they can hear everything.
New gene delivery therapy restores partial hearing, balance in deaf mice
Using an innovative genetic editing technique, researchers have managed to partially restore both heating and balance in mice born with ...
Despite lacking ears, spiders can hear you talk across the room
Tingling spider senses.
Did Neanderthals and humans share the same hearing?
The study might help answer whether neanderthals were capable of the same communication abilities as humans.
Mylan CEO Heather Bresch’s hearing on EpiPen was a complete disaster for the company
Congress was not happy with Bresch's or the FDA's answers.
The US is rolling out superhuman hearing for its soldiers
Wearable tech could save the hearing of thousands of soldiers.
How hearing works and other eary functions
Hear all about it here.
Gene therapy restores hearing in deaf mice, paving the way for human treatment
Mice with genetic hearing loss could sense and respond to noises after receiving working copies of their faulty genes, researchers ...
How loud music damages your hearing
Photo: rantlifestyle.com Listening to loud music has been shown time and time again to affect hearing in a negative way. ...
Hearing restored in mice after hair cells were regenerated through drug
Hearing loss is a grave healthcare problem around the world, with 50 million cases in the US alone. The most ...
Hearing restored in gerbils by stem cell treatment – might work for the human ear, too
In an exceptional feat of medical and technical ingenuity, scientists have been able to restore partial hearing to deaf gerbils ...
Woman can literally feel sound after stroke
After she suffered a stroke, a 36-year-old professor started to feel sounds. In the beginning she didn't know what was ...
