Advanced biomechanical modeling shows that early mammal ancestors likely used an eardrum to hear airborne sounds 250 million ...

There are some sounds you hope you never hear. For example, the buzzing sound of a tick burrowing into your eardrum. That's what happened to a 9-year-old boy in Connecticut who was taken to the doctor ...

Millions of years ago marine animals had hearing organs that allowed them to detect sounds in the water. When land dwelling animals evolved they now had to detect environmental sounds that traveled ...

Sound waves pass from the ear canal in the outer ear to the middle ear and create a vibration of the eardrum. Due to the vibrations of the tiny bones in the middle ear, we are able to hear sound. When ...

A 3D-printed polymer-based implant that could be used to repair a damaged eardrum is entering commercial development. The PhonoGraft hearing-restoration technology was developed by researchers at ...

A 9-year-old boy from New England who heard a buzzing in his ear discovered it was an insect that had attached itself to his eardrum. In a case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, ...