A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

Two children in China who were born deaf can now listen and dance to music after undergoing pioneering gene therapy that restored hearing in both ears. They are among a small group of patients who ...

Since babbling and listening to sounds provide ... the sooner action can be taken to help the child. *Conductive, where sound is prevented from reaching the inner ear from the outer and middle ...

Children are little sponges ... So, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and remember, little ears are listening.

to attentive listening, suggesting that our primate ancestors used them to move their ear shells and funnel sounds to their eardrums. Schröer and his colleagues, however, wanted to determine ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles ...

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

A study shows that vestigial ear muscles activate when humans listen intently, mirroring how animals move their ears to locate sounds. Using electromyography, researchers found that these muscles ...

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