The old adage is that moms have eyes in the back of their heads, but a new study shows that women in general may also have ...

Age isn’t the primary factor in determining ear sensitivity in humans, sex and environment play a much bigger role.

Concluding that female ears can be up to six kHz sharper than male ears in some populations, the team said women not only ...

From online fashion retailers to winemakers and medical device manufacturers, the country’s biggest companies are assessing ...

Non-destructive micron-resolution imaging of cochlea lays groundwork for better hearing loss diagnosis For the first time, ...

Since the cochlea is located deep inside the ear and filled with lymphatic fluid, they will first need to miniaturize the system so it can be inserted through the ear canal. They are also developing a ...

For the first time, researchers have shown that terahertz imaging can be used to visualize internal details of the mouse cochlea with micron-level spatial resolution.

Starting this month, China's centralized procurement of cochlear implants has taken effect, reducing the average cost of the devices by 75 percent, CCTV News reported on Tuesday. Zhu Yuanyuan ...

Here, movement of fluid in the cochlea stimulates hair cells to trigger a nerve impulse carried to the brain by the auditory nerve, interpreted as sound. When hearing loss is caused by problems ...

A new study suggests that the brain helps regulate the ear’s sensitivity to sound by sending signals to the cochlea, potentially leading to treatments for conditions like tinnitus and hyperacusis.

Sensory hair cells are tiny structures in the cochlea that wave like blades of grass in the wind – but in this case, it’s the pressure of sound waves that gets them moving. When they do ...