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Ancient skull reveals our ears began evolving 50 million years earlier than thought, inside the jaw of a 250-million-year-old ...

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While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums ...

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Presley John got a call from the Department of Health and Human Services. What they said caught her "completely off-guard." ...

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Gamers might soon be able to scan their brains using specialized commercial headphones to get midmatch snapshots of mental ...

Abstract: Middle ear effusion is a common symptom of otitis media, the reactive physical manifestation of otitis media (OM) in children's middle ear. However, diagnosing MEE for little children at ...

Middle-ear infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria remain among the most common pediatric illnesses worldwide. When the eustachian tube-responsible for balancing pressure and clearing mucus-fails ...

Genetic analysis of inner ear tissue revealed cells with highly sensitive electric sensors, the same ones used by sharks to detect their prey. "The cells we describe are ideally equipped to detect ...