The Super Bowl is America's most-watched broadcast and also, it seems, the nation's loudest single event—a distinction that ...

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

Scientists call this feature a “neural fossil”. It’s a remnant of a system that once helped our ancestors pinpoint the ...

Tens of millions of years ago, our primate ancestors responded to noises in much the same way many other mammals do, pricking their ears and deftly turning them towards the sound's source.

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

With an impressive 19 hours of playtime from the earbuds and a total of 60 hours when including the charging case, the OpenRock S offers stellar battery life.

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 ...

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.