You won’t notice it, but when you listen hard enough, your ears — or at least the muscles around them — spring into action. Though (most) humans lost the ability to wiggle their ears ...

Many humans find rats frightening and revolting ... Williams walks over to a large cage and picks out a fat gray rat with an ivory belly and a split ear from a youthful brawl.

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Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

The US Copyright Office issued its latest findings on the controversial question of who owns artworks created using generative tools. A visitor takes a picture of an ...

Ear muscles flex when focusing on specific sounds in noisy settings Study links muscle activity to ancestral auditory reflexes Findings may help improve hearing aid ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — Various diseases can be treated by stimulating the vagus nerve in the ear with electrical signals. However, this technique does not always work. A study has now shown ...

The surgical approach to the cochlea involved a post-auricular incision and removal of the tympanic membrane and the ossicular chain. With the middle ear opened, a microliter syringe was used to ...

Non-invasive techniques such as functional MRI (fMRI) can be used to record signals related to brain activity in humans from many locations in the brain simultaneously. However, many conventional ...