Hartlepool grandmother Fiona Klimczak is the first patient at James Cook University Hospital to receive a bone conduction hearing implant.

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

Choose the right earplugs or earmuffs: Buy earplugs or earmuffs with a Noise Reduction Rating of at least 22 decibels. This number, listed on the product package, tells you how much sound the product ...

Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear ...

While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums began evolving much earlier than assumed.

Vertigo is a sudden feeling of unsteadiness, often described as the sensation that your surroundings are spinning. I’ve experienced this myself — it’s disorienting and can make you reach for ...

The inner ear is a marvel of evolution, but scientists are still puzzled over certain aspects of its operation. Two related studies detail how scientists successfully excised a sliver of an inner ear ...

The tympanic cavity was accessed through the mastoid process. The facial nerve was removed while the posterior wall of the external auditory canal was preserved. The integrity, continuity, and ...

ChatGPT started with the basics. In 1971, about 61% of American adults lived in middle-income households. By 2021, that number had dropped to 50%. That’s a massive shift in just 50 years. But the ...