Why are some people unable to hear from birth, even though their inner ear appears intact? One possible cause lies in the ...

By emitting energy through oscillations, certain hair-cell bundles amplify sound waves so they can be picked up better by other hair-cell bundles.

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, the University Medical Center Göttingen, and the Max Planck Institute for ...

In the intricate machinery of the inner ear, hearing begins with a protein that moves a few billionths of a meter up to ...

A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team showed that a group of highly divergent mammals known as Afrotheria and distantly ...

The inner ear may not seem like a particularly bony place, but human ears in fact have three small bones (also known as ossicles): the malleus, the incus and the stapes. While most people would assume ...

Humans and our closest relatives, living apes, display a remarkable diversity of types of locomotion—from walking upright on two legs to climbing in trees and walking using all four limbs. While ...