Sitting in traffic can expose a driver to intense irritation, as well as a range of sound frequencies. Humming engines ...

Scientists and engineers have modeled a hidden mechanism in the inner ear that helps mammals balance via the fastest-known signal in the brain. The sensory organs that allow us to walk, dance and turn ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a tool routinely used to diagnose and plan treatment for eye diseases, has now been modified to collect images of the inner ear. A proof-of-concept study led by ...

An artist’s reconstruction of the locomotor behavior and paleoenvironment of Lufengpithecus. This extinct primate lived in East Asia during the Miocene. “It would have been about the size of a ...

Around his second birthday, Uri Manor’s parents realized that their son had severe hearing loss. Manor, who is now an imaging scientist and organelle researcher at the University of California, San ...

In a move to become a “pure play” RNA company, Altamira Therapeutics is selling off 90% of its Zilentin subsidiary and its inner ear R&D work for the chance to make up to $55 million in biobucks. The ...