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 ...

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

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

Vestigial human ear muscles react to sounds even if the external ear does not move. This could be used to build better earing aids.

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

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

NASA has released an eerie and unsettling audio clip of sound waves rippling out from a supermassive black hole located 250 ...

Listen to the haunting audio clip of sound waves from a supermassive black hole 250 million light-years away, captured by ...

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

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

Profound deafness: This refers to a total lack of hearing. An individual with profound deafness is unable to detect sound at all. Sound waves enter the ear, move down the ear or auditory canal, and ...