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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dangling nose hairs, spiky ear hairs — what gives? Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Rachel Rabkin Peachman Q: I’m a man in my 50s and have noticed hair sprouting in weird ...

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, ...