In an effort to better understand how the inner ear can hear the quietest of noises, researchers from Yale University ...

Yale researchers discovered new cochlear hearing modes that influence how the ear amplifies sound and processes frequencies.

but how forcefully the sound waves enter the structure of your ear. If someone ever told you to turn your music down or you would lose your hearing, they were right. Noise-induced hearing loss ...

The auricular muscles, which enabled our distant ancestors to move their ears for better hearing, activate when people try to ...

On the Impulses of Compound Sound Waves and their Mechanical Transmission through the Ear. By Sir Thomas Wrightson, Bart. Pp. 40, and portfolio of diagrams. (London: Thomas Kell and Son ...

Bud-style earphones can be uncomfortable for some mobile music lovers, but there are plenty of over-ear, open-ear and bone ...

So-called Rayleigh–Bloch waves can release an enormous amount of ... previously unknown set of "modes" within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds ...

The mammalian ear is a perfect example. Over the eons, the jawbones of our fish ancestors became three separate small bones that transmit sound waves from the eardrum to the inner ear. Now a new ...