Noise-induced hearing loss can be temporary or permanent. It’s not as much a matter of how loud a sound seems, but how forcefully the sound waves enter the structure of your ear. If someone ever ...

Muffled hearing occurs when sound waves have trouble passing through the outer, middle, or inner ear. You may have a sensation that’s similar to the pressure you feel while flying on an airplane.

Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have ...

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

Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of "modes" within the human ear that put important ...

Physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of 'modes' within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, and ...

It's not for lack of trying. Researchers from Saarland University in Germany, hearing-aid manufacturer WS Audiology, and the ...

A strong playlist and a pair of wireless headphones are key for me to turn a humdrum jog into a great run. But, when I’m logging miles outside and sharing the road with cars, I prefer to keep my ears ...

When sound waves reach the inner ear, neurons there pick up the vibrations ... With powerful new models of human hearing, scientists at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research have determined ...

The Miracle-Ear Foundation’s Gift of Sound hearing aid program ... tinnitus with static noise, ocean waves and Notch Therapy. TV streamer Hear the TV more clearly with audio streaming to a ...

"We set out to understand how the ear can tune ... tone you are hearing." Those hairs do something else as well: They act as mechanical amplifiers, pumping energy into sound waves to counteract ...