It's not for lack of trying. Researchers from Saarland University in Germany, hearing-aid manufacturer WS Audiology, and the ...

Listening to music at high volume can damage your ears in several ways, such as hearing loss, damaged eardrum, Tinnitus, and ...

Evolution has largely deprived us of our ability to swivel our ears, but those vestigial muscles still activate when we ...

Vestigial ear muscles activate during focused listening, revealing a hidden link to our auditory past and evolution.

You won’t notice it, but when you listen hard enough, your ears — or at least the muscles around them — spring into action.

Muffled hearing can sound and feel like cotton balls in your ear. Understanding what is causing this change to your hearing can help you take appropriate action. Muffled hearing occurs when sound ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability ...

Some people experience fluttering sounds in the ears that come and go, while others may hear a continuous sound. Causes include tinnitus, dysfunction of tissues in the ear, and high blood pressure.

In research first published in 2015, the World Health Organization estimated more than 1 billion teens and young people are ...