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

A muscle that scientists previously thought was useless activates when we're listening really hard to something, according to ...

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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 ...

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.

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

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