Human ears can’t prick up, but the vestigial ear muscles sure try Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to ...

An ear infection can present as a dull, persistent ache, and is sometimes accompanied by pressure, discharge, itching, fever or muffled hearing. In more severe cases, the pain can be sudden, sharp ...

An ear infection can present as a dull, persistent ache, and is sometimes accompanied by pressure, discharge, itching, fever or muffled hearing. In more severe cases, the pain can be sudden, sharp ...

New tinnitus treatment emerges from blocking back-channels in the ear By Michael Irving. March 14, 2025 ... like please do something we’ve already lost so many people in the community and ...

In the mid-1990s, getting my ears pierced felt like a sizable check on my to-do list as a 14-year-old. But now there are 9-year-olds in my son’s class with more ear piercings than the five I have.

Though human ears are comparatively simple, our brains still have to adjust and re-learn how to identify the source of a sound when our outer ears are altered. Which all brings us to something of ...

Ancient ear-wiggling muscles kick on when people strain to hear. That auricular activity, described January 30 in Frontiers in Neuroscience, probably doesn’t do much, if anything. But these ...