Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered how a specific type of cell in the inner ear plays a commanding role in ...

Regeneration is a trick many animals, including lizards, starfish, and octopuses, have mastered. Axolotls, a salamander species originating in Mexico, can regrow pretty much everything from severed ...

Scientists have created a more efficient and controlled way to produce lab-grown inner ear hair cells than current methods allow, offering a new tool for hearing loss research. Subscribe to our ...

A stray ear hair might seem like a trivial detail, a minor imperfection in the grand scheme of things. Yet, if your wife expresses a sudden aversion to this previously unnoticed feature, it can leave ...

Do people with bigger ears hear better? The editor of this page, Julia Brown, writes: The function of the outer ear, or pinna, is to amplify and channel sound into the ear canal. Bigger ears will do ...

Many animals move their ears to better focus their attention on a novel sound. That humans also have this capability was not known until now. A research team now has demonstrated that we make minute, ...