Hearing loss isn't just caused by loud noises. There are several unexpected factors that can affect your ears. Here's what ...

The best over-ear headphones also create a tight seal around your ears, providing an extra layer of passive sound blocking. Testing the Apple AirPods Max headphones, which didn't make the final ...

“There are three large muscles [that] connect the auricle [the outer ear] to the skull and scalp,” said Andreas Schröer, a study author and a neuroscientist at Saarland University in Germany, in a ...

When we strain to catch what someone is saying in a noisy room, for example, small muscles in our outer ears, called the superior auricular muscles, kick into action, likely in an attempt to ...

The Outer Banks is the artist James Melvin’s muse. He fell in love with the barrier islands while visiting from Fayetteville a little over 40 years ago. Now 76, he smiles as he remembers ...

A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on their hearing for survival.

Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

The outer ear is the part of the ear we can see ... The main symptom is a spot or sore on the ear flap that doesn’t heal. Most squamous cell cancers are pink lumps that have a hard scaly surface. They ...

Research links human outer ears to cartilage in fish gills. Gene-editing experiments confirm evolutionary connection. Findings date back to marine invertebrates 400 million years ago. New research has ...

Research links human outer ears to cartilage in fish gills. Gene-editing experiments confirm evolutionary connection. Findings date back to marine invertebrates 400 million years ago.